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American Scoundrel
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Author : Thomas Keneally
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2003-05-13
American Scoundrel written by Thomas Keneally and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List, creates a biography that 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 many other 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 trial contained 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 had equal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative.
American Scoundrel
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Author : Tom Keneally
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2013-12-01
American Scoundrel written by Tom Keneally and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
American Scoundrel Murder Love And Politics In Civil War America
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Author : Thomas Keneally
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
American Scoundrel Murder Love And Politics In Civil War America written by Thomas Keneally and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Scoundrel
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Author : Sarah Weinman
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Scoundrel written by Sarah Weinman and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with True Crime categories.
A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him free In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith’s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again. From the people Smith deceived—Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him—to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another. Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith’s orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man’s ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith’s victims.
Scoundrels Who Made America Great
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Author : Martin Henley
language : en
Publisher: Abbott Press
Release Date : 2016-01-21
Scoundrels Who Made America Great written by Martin Henley and has been published by Abbott Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-21 with History categories.
We like our heroes to wear white hats and our villains to wear black. Scoundrels Who Made America Great takes a fresh view of heroism by using a dramatic event in the life of each scoundrel to illustrate how disreputable labels can obscure heroic deeds. Some of them are household names. Others have been forgotten till now. Some are villains who turned out to be heroes. Others are heroes who proved to be all too human. They are The Scoundrels. And Martin Henley has brought them to life in a vividly-written volume that overflows with surprising stories, little-known facts, and the pure drama of history. Enjoy. William Martin, New York Times Bestselling author of The Lost Constitution and The Lincoln Letter By showing that the meanings assigned to the actions of prominent historical figures by contemporaries as well as future generations can fluctuate dramatically, Martin Henleys book inspires readers to reflect on the very nature of history. It helps them to understand that both scoundrels and heroes are made by their deeds as much as by the collective memory that shifts with time and place. Michal Rozbicki, Professor of History, St. Louis University With the rigorous research of a scholar and the superb story-telling skills of a novelist, Martin Henley has penned a wonderful book about five historical scoundrels who, upon further reading, were not the dreadful miscreants all of us have been led to believe. Scoundrels who Made America Great is a highly readable and truly enlightening slice of hidden history. Ronald E. Yates, Dean Emeritus, College of Media Studies, University of Illinois. Bestselling author of Finding Billy Battles website: www.martinhenley.com blog: www.ironicamericanhistory.blogspot.com
The Catacazy Affair And The Uneasy Path Of Russian American Relations
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Author : Lee A. Farrow
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-09
The Catacazy Affair And The Uneasy Path Of Russian American Relations written by Lee A. Farrow and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with Political Science categories.
Constantin Catacazy whipped up scandal in Washington after his appointment there as Russian Ambassador in 1869, ignoring diplomatic protocol and defying social mores. By 1871, President Grant and his Cabinet requested that he be recalled. But the timing of this request overlapped with the visit of the tsar's son to the USA - a celebrated diplomatic event symbolising the friendship and good will between the two nations. Consequently, Catacazy was allowed to travel with the tsar's son, but only as a persona non grata. This tense resolution led many to worry about the future of the Russian-American friendship. With a keen sense of the human interest, Lee A. Farrow demonstrates that this affair was one of the earliest significant complications in the relationship between Russia and the USA. Using a lively micro-historical approach and fresh materials such as the letters of Catacazy and of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish from archives in the USA, UK and Russia, Farrow explores 19th-century politics and diplomacy, and the pre-suffrage power of women in the political arena through an investigation of the Washington wives' reactions to the controversial figure of Olga Catacazy. The result is a cutting-edge analysis of this pivotal episode in modern history.
The Literary History Of The American Revolution
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Author : Moses Coit Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Literary History Of The American Revolution written by Moses Coit Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with American literature categories.
The Literary History Of The American Revolution 1763 1783
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Author : Moses Coit Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Literary History Of The American Revolution 1763 1783 written by Moses Coit Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with American literature categories.
The Literary History Of The American Revolution 1763 1783 1763 1776
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Author : Moses Coit Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
The Literary History Of The American Revolution 1763 1783 1763 1776 written by Moses Coit Tyler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with American literature categories.
Amer Scoundrel
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Author : Thomas Keneally
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Amer Scoundrel written by Thomas Keneally and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with categories.
Keneally re-creates an extraordinary period in politics and society, where women were punished for violating mores that did not bind men. And Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era. A remarkable portrait of an unconventional, highly popular figure who "got away with it all, " this tale resonates with uncomfortable truths about American politics, ethics, and morality.