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Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, against a backdrop of double-dealing, intrigue and 'the slavery question'. Enslaved, in her turn, by the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century society, his wife was shunned and thereafter banned from public life. Sickles, meanwhile, was free to accept favours and patronage. He raised a regiment for the Union, and went on to become a general in the army, rising to the rank of brigadier-general and commanding a flank at the Battle of Gettysburg, at which he lost a leg, which he put into the military museum in Washington where he would take friends to visit it

Author

Keneally, Thomas, 1935-

Publisher

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781740510837

Subjects

Political Science, Memoir, Biography