Word: edgcumb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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