Here is the second installment of my telling of the story of America’s incredible scoundrel, Congressman and later General, Dan Sickles.
You mean we're not a perfect nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are fools!
The tale you tell reads like a Russian novel! Anna Karenina, anyone?
We are founded on amazing principles, but we have not been good at living or governing by them. This story is one of the most fascinating in our history. Sometimes writing about scoundrels is more interesting than writing about “saints.”
You mean we're not a perfect nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are fools!
The tale you tell reads like a Russian novel! Anna Karenina, anyone?
We are founded on amazing principles, but we have not been good at living or governing by them. This story is one of the most fascinating in our history. Sometimes writing about scoundrels is more interesting than writing about “saints.”