American scoundrel [sound recording]
Keneally, Thomas, 1935-2010
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American Scoundrel is the lens through which the listener can view history at a time when America was being torn apart. 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.
Main title:
American scoundrel [sound recording] / by Thomas Keneally ; read by Humphrey Bower.
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Imprint:
Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio, p2010.
Collation:
11 sound discs (CD) (13 hr., 45 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. ; in container.
Notes:
Unabridged.
Performers:
Read by Humphrey Bower.
ISBN:
9781740934374
Dewey class:
328.73092
Language:
English
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BRN:
248437
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