{"product_id":"2026100009021-secondhand-american-scoundrel-the-life-of-the-notorious-civil-war-general-dan-sickles-signed","title":"American Scoundrel: The Life Of The Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st aus ed., 1st pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in American history managed to be simultaneously a murderer, a congressman, a disgraced general, and a national hero — yet Dan Sickles was all of these and more. American Scoundrel chronicles the outrageous life of one of the Civil War's most notorious characters, a man whose reckless battlefield decisions at Gettysburg cost thousands of lives yet somehow cemented his legend, and whose earlier acquittal for the murder of his wife's lover marked the first successful use of the temporary insanity defence in American legal history. Thomas Keneally presents Sickles' world with vivid, novelistic authority, reconstructing the grandeur and moral corruption of 19th-century Washington political society alongside the blood-soaked chaos of America's defining conflict.\n\nKeneally, best known internationally for Schindler's Ark, brings his formidable narrative gifts to bear on a biography that reads with the propulsive energy of a thriller. He argues compellingly that Sickles was not merely a product of his turbulent age but a force who actively shaped it, bending laws, social conventions, and military strategy to his own indomitable will. The result is a portrait of ambition, scandal, and survival that leaves the reader questioning where the line between villainy and heroism truly lies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336814469339,"sku":"2026100009021-SECONDHAND","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/407e4df5-0f16-4b3e-ba87-5953e7b98001.png?v=1789958594","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009021-secondhand-american-scoundrel-the-life-of-the-notorious-civil-war-general-dan-sickles-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}