American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles Thomas Keneally(2003)Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindlers List , creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject. Dan Sickles was a member of Congress,