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Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple thatwins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler's List," "creates a biographythat is as lively and engrossing as its subject. Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spain-among manyother women. But the most startling of his many exploits was his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and neglected wife, Teresa. The affair, the crime, and the trialcontained all the ingredients of melodrama needed to ensure that it was the scandal of the age. At the trial's end, Sickles was acquitted and hardly chastened. His life, in which outrage and accomplishment hadequal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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Author

Thomas Keneally [Keneally, Thomas]

Publisher

Knopf Group E-Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385722254

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Political Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (132 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14