Sickles the Incredible A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles

-- A problem child for all his 94 years.-- A Tammany politician so involved with women that he worried even Tammany.-- A diplomat who insulted Queen Victoria.-- A presidential aspirant, then a killer tried for murder.-- The general who won (or almost lost) the battle of Gettysburg.-- The soldier who laid away his lost leg in a coffin.-- The butt of the most vicious abuse in American newspaper history.-- The Yankee ambassador who took over Spain, carried on an affair with the deposed Queen Isabella, finally lost his own political shirt.-- The genius who smashed Jay Gould's railroad conspiracy.-- The millionaire who went broke on women and Wall Street.-- The adventurer who was often wrong, often right, but never dull.Swanberg, W. A. is the author of 'Sickles the Incredible A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles' with ISBN 9781879664029 and ISBN 187966402X.