Word: swanberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FISK (310 pp.)-W. A Swanberg -Scribner...
Civil War Historian (First Blood) Swanberg calls Fisk "easily the most notorious man in the nation." Probably no tycoon before or since combined so blatantly the related arts of lavish loose living, public fleecing and judicial fixing. "What the Tweed Ring was in government, the Erie Ring was in finance." The twain, interlocked by the expert pincer movements of corrupt judges, sheriffs and countless lawyers, put on a display of operatic chicanery that still makes for breathless reading...
FIRST BLOOD, THE STORY OF FORT SUMTER (373 pp.)-W. A. Swanberg-Scrib...
Author W. A. (Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg magnifies Sumter's importance for dramatic effect, tending to cast it as an actual cause of the Civil War instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...
...went to Washington as a Congressman and there, right across from the White House, shot down and killed his young wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, son of the man who had written The Star-Spangled Banner. Biographer Swanberg suggests that Sickles' virtue was offended less than his pride. The outcome of Sickles' trial for the murder of Key was that the public applauded him for the shooting, then execrated him when he "forgave" his wife by living with her in the same house...