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SICKLES THE INCREDIBLE (433 pp.)-W. A. Swanberg-Scribner...
...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...
...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...