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...General Sickles who led the III Corps into an indefensible salient in the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, he has never had more than a corporal's guard of biographers, unlike the platoons, companies and regiments bristling about the tombs of other Civil War heroes.* In 1945, Edgcumb Pinchon wrote Sickles' first biography (TIME, June 18, 1945), but he was too preoccupied with Sickles as a sexy swashbuckler to catch the personality captured by sober-sided Civil War Buff Swanberg. Here the snaggle-toothed old warhorse gets free title to his redoubt on the flank of American history...
...SICKLES - Edgcumb Pinchon -Doubleday, Doran...
...Washington Tragedy," as it came to be called, kept the name of Sickles green for a generation; the tragedy and its actors have been long forgotten. Edgcumb Pinchon revives them again, in the first biography of one of the 19th Century's most eccentric and notorious U.S. characters. Like many recent biogra-phies, Dan Sickles is partly straight fact, partly imaginary reconstruction of likely facts (especially in the bedroom scenes). It suffers from writing so thick with emotion that Hero Sickles often emerges from obscurity only to be buried in gush. But it leaves clear the fact that Daniel...
UNTIL I FIND-Edgcumb Pinchon-Knopf ($2.50). Sturdy, vivid semi-autobiographical tale of a boy's adventures on the Isle of Wight and in the New Forest in Victorian times. Gypsy firesides to which the boy's own Gypsy blood entices him and an ancient school where he learns singlestick and archery provide the picaresque background for adolescent rebellions and escapades...
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