American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles by Thomas Keneally

American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles

Thomas Keneally

397 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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On the last Sunday of February 1859, Dan Sickles, a charming young congressman from New York, murdered his good friend Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key)–who was also his wife’s lover–in Washington’s Lafayette Square. The shooting took p...

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