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American Scoundrel
Thomas Keneally
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Description for American Scoundrel
Paperback. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This title tells the story of that killing and its repercussions. It recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered around; 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 slavery. Enslaved, in her turn, by the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century society, his wife was shunned ... Read more
On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions. Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered around; 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 slavery. Enslaved, in her turn, by the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century society, his wife was shunned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099285991
SKU
KSS0002517
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize with Schindler's Ark which was subsequently made into the internationally acclaimed film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg. His non-fiction includes an entertaining book on the American Civil War, American Scoundrel, and a superb epic about the Iirhs diaspora, The Great Shame.
Reviews for American Scoundrel
A fascinating book- informative and entertaining
Daily Telegraph
Keneally has a novelist's sense of pace, a mellifluous prose style and a profound sympathy for his characters
Sunday Times
This has a thriller-ish propulsion-a highly readable book
Sunday Express
A great piece of storytelling
Guardian
Daily Telegraph
Keneally has a novelist's sense of pace, a mellifluous prose style and a profound sympathy for his characters
Sunday Times
This has a thriller-ish propulsion-a highly readable book
Sunday Express
A great piece of storytelling
Guardian