2002, ISBN: 70005a33e9e78332567308d717910aae

Random House , Australia, 2002. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wif… Altro …

Random House , Australia, 2002. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. 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, 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. Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era- as a womaniser, he introduced his favourite madam to Queen Victoria while his wife stayed at home; as minister to Spain, he began an affair with the queen while courting one of her ladies in waiting; and in his later years, he installed his housekeeper as his mistress while his second wife took up residence nearby. The brio with which Thomas Keneally tells the tale is equal to the pace and bravado of Sickles's life. But, more than this, American Scoundrel is the lens through which the reader can view history at a time when America was being torn apart. This book resonates with uncomfortable truths, as relevant now as they were then. 397 pages. Light foxing to outer page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; War::Civil War. ISBN: 1740510836. ISBN/EAN: 9781740510837. Inventory No: 260383. . 9781740510837, Random House, 2002, 2.5, Cassell & Company Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Decorative blue cloth. Contains black & white illustrations and plates. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible tanning & crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear., Cassell & Company Limited, 2.5<

1887, ISBN: 70005a33e9e78332567308d717910aae

Used, [SC: 2.8], [PU: Cassell & Co], 1887. No Edition Remarks. 752 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth illustrative boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Black and white illustratio… Altro …

Used, [SC: 2.8], [PU: Cassell & Co], 1887. No Edition Remarks. 752 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth illustrative boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Black and white illustrations and illustrative plates throughout. Volume 1. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Thumb marking present. Occasional foxing. Hinges are cracked with netting exposed. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration. Gilt lettering is darkened slightly. Book has a slight forward lean. Splits to spine front joint.<

1111, ISBN: 70005a33e9e78332567308d717910aae

Used, [SC: 2.8], [PU: Cassell & Co Ltd], Subscription Edition. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Volume III. Contains black and white photographic plates. Subscri… Altro …

Used, [SC: 2.8], [PU: Cassell & Co Ltd], Subscription Edition. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Volume III. Contains black and white photographic plates. Subscription Edition insert to front of book. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Minor dog-eared corners. Slight cracking to hinges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light white marking to rear board.<