Sickles the Incredible: A Biography of Daniel Edgar Sickles

-- A problem child for all his 94 years.
-- A Tammany politician so involved with women that he worried even Tammany.
-- A diplomat who insulted Queen Victoria.
-- A presidential aspirant, then a killer tried for murder.
-- The general who won (or almost lost) the battle of Gettysburg.
-- The soldier who laid away his lost leg in a coffin.
-- The butt of the most vicious abuse in American newspaper history.
-- The Yankee ambassador who took over Spain, carried on an affair with the deposed Queen Isabella, finally lost his own political shirt.
-- The genius who smashed Jay Gould's railroad conspiracy.
-- The millionaire who went broke on women and Wall Street.
-- The adventurer who was often wrong, often right, but never dull.