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Article: ``SCOUNDREL'' REITERATES UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2002
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Byline: BARBARA SPIGEL
AMERICAN SCOUNDREL:
The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
THOMAS KENEALLY
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 358 pp. $27.50.
NOVELIST and nonfiction author Thomas Keneally is best known for ``Schindler's List''; and for his most recent nonfiction work, ``The Great Shame and Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World.'' It was while researching this book that Keneally first learned about Daniel Sickles, ``an elegant and faintly savage man,'' whose tendencies were ``towards berserk and full-blooded risk.''
Seldom has a book been more aptly titled, as it mirrors a life in which ...