Thomas Keneally

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

Random House Australia 2002 Hardback, 397pp. 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. (ISBN: 9781740510837). Very good.

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Book number: 1287885

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Biography, War9781740510837 9781740510837

Keneally, Thomas

American Scoundrel: Love, War and Politics in Civil War America

Paperback; 2002; London etc. : BCA Publishing; 397pp.; Conditie: Goed; Paperback, 8vo.; Engels

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Book number: 328110-XE11

Catalogue: Geschiedenis/Noord-Amerika

Keywords: Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika

Keneally, Thomas

American Scoundrel

Chatto & Windus, 2002, 1st UK edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. xii+397pp, index, a fine copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 701169745
¶ A biography of the notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, including the murder of his wife's lover. He was acquitted after using temporary insanity as a legal defense for the first time in United States history.

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Book number: 52836

Keywords: ISBN 0701169745, biography, american civil war, true crime 701169745

Thomas Keneally

An Angel in Australia

Sydney , Doubleday, 2002. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Thomas Keneally's 'An Angel in Australia&apos. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. "A story of a catholic priest in Sydney during the second world war and the dilemma posed by the confession of a murder in the confessional." Thomas Keneally is a novelist best known for his best-seller 'Schindler's Ark&apos. His other novels include 'The Place at WHitton', 'Three Cheers for the Paraclete', and 'Gossip from the Forest&apos. In original cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light shelfwear to the boards. Minor edgewear to the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: MOD9-G-12

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

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Keneally, Thomas

Australische Ballade- Roman

Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1977 1977. Gebundene Ausgabe Sehr guter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag, Original-Schutzumschlag sehr gut - gebraucht

buchgenie.de Sigrun WuerteleProfessional seller

Book number: BU215042

Catalogue: Ratgeber

Keneally, Thomas

Australische Ballade

1. Aufl. Volk und Welt 1977. Gebundene Ausgabe Guter altersbedingter Zustand Original-Schutzumschlag gut - gebraucht

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Book number: BU233782

Catalogue: Ratgeber

Keneally, Thomas

Australische Ballade

Verlag Volk und Welt Berlin 1977. 255 S. Gebundene Ausgabe Sehr guter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag, gebrauchter Original-Schutzumschlag Sehr gut - gebraucht

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Book number: BU257205

Catalogue: Ratgeber

Keneally, Thomas

Australische Ballade. Roman

1. Aufl. Volk u. Welt, 1977. Deutsch von I. u. R. Rönsch Einband: unbekannter Einband. 294

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Book number: 1175i

Keywords: Literatur

KENEALLY, THOMAS

Bettany's Book

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 2000, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. 600pp. Orange coloured boards with unclipped dustjacket. An excellent first edition copy. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 9064

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Novels, Australian Writers

Keneally, Thomas,

Bettany's Book.

London, Quality Paperback Direct, 2000. Book Club. Trade Paperback., Vg- in Wraps. Light Wear. Pages Lightly Toning. Pages: 598.

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Book number: MASTER162742I

Catalogue: Literature

KENEALLY, THOMAS.

Blood Red, Sister Rose.

First US edition; 8vo; pp. 384; hardback, dustjacket; bumping to dustjacket, a good copy. New York, The Viking Press, (1975)

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KENEALLY, THOMAS.

Blood Red, Sister Rose.

8vo; pp. 384; hardback, dustjacket; bumping to dustjacket, a good copy. Sydney, Book Club Associates, (1974)

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Book number: 52264

Keywords: alit Australian literature

KENEALLY, THOMAS.

Bring Larks And Heroes.

First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [viii], 248 (last blank); original two tone green cloth, dustjacket, name on front endpaper top edges browned otherwise a very good copy. Melbourne; Cassell Australia; 1967. The novel is set in a penal colony in the South Pacific. The time is the late eighteenth century. The geography of the colony suggest that of Sydney, but is not meant to be identified with it. The authors third novel.

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Book number: 105397

Keywords: Australian Literature

KENEALLY,THOMAS

Bring Larks and Heroes

Sydney Australia: Cassell, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Good Dust-Jacket with one small v shaped chip to the top edge of the upper cover measuring 6-7mm in width..Not price clipped and with no previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.There is some tanning and spotrting to the page edges.The d/j comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve,8vo 247pp First Australian Edition 1st Impression (Sydney 1967). Very Good .

Richard Thornton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 80667

Catalogue: Modern Firsts

KENEALLY, THOMAS

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Canada, Ballantine. 1973, 1st Printing. Paperback. Solid with a crease and color fading on the spine, creases on the bottom edge of the back cover, and the covers show light wear. Good- Very Good.

John Thompson BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 43205

Catalogue: Literature, Classics, Plays & Poetry

Keywords: Fiction Literature Crime Racism Murder Vintage Collectible