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The husband: charming cad and powerful Congressman, with hopes of becoming the next President; The wife: beautiful society hostess, 20 years old, of Italian descent; The lover: the most handsome widower in Washington. This is the starting point of American Scoundrel, a true story every bit as colourful as a novel. The shooting and trial are described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, against a backdrop of double-dealing, intrigue and 'the slavery question'. Having - through his political connections - got away literally with murder, Sickles rehabilitated himself by founding the Excelsior Brigade and fighting in the Civil War.
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation's We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeff
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AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE NONFICTION BIOGRAPHYO, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE 10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW 20181885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year-old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Toledo, receives news of her friend's impending death. Remedies packed in her satchel, Mary rushes to boar
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An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century--a riveting...engrossing...'American Epic' ( The Wall Street Journal ) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee. A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash between two men w
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had.- Ernest Hemingway A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved i
