UNGENTLEMANLY ACTS PB: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial - Tapa blanda

Barnett, Louise

 
9780809073986: UNGENTLEMANLY ACTS PB: The Army’s Notorious Incest Trial
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ISBN 10: 0809073986 ISBN 13: 9780809073986
Editorial: Hill and Wang, 2004

Sinopsis

The shocking story behind the U.S. Army's longest court-martial-full of sex, intrigue, and betrayal.

In April 1879, on a remote military base in west Texas, a decorated army officer of dubious moral reputation faced a court-martial. The trial involved shocking issues-of sex and seduction, incest and abduction. The highest figures in the United States Army got involved, and General William Tecumseh Sherman himself made it his personal mission to see that Captain Andrew Geddes was punished for his alleged crime.

But just what had Geddes done? He had spoken out about an "unspeakable" act-he had accused a fellow officer, Louis Orleman, of incest with his teenage daughter, Lillie. The army quickly charged not Orleman but Geddes with "conduct unbecoming a gentleman," for his accusation had come about only because Orleman was at the same time preparing to charge that Geddes himself had attempted the seduction and abduction of the same young lady. Which man was the villain and which the savior?

Louise Barnett's compelling examination of the Geddes drama is at once a suspenseful narrative of a very important trial and a study of prevailing attitudes toward sexuality, parental discipline, the army, and the appropriate division between public and private life. It will enrich any reader's understanding of the tumultuous post-Civil War period, when the United States was striving to define its moral codes anew.

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Louise Barnett, a professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author, most recently, of Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Editorial
Hill and Wang
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0809073986
ISBN 13 
9780809073986
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
312
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9780809073979: Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial

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ISBN 10:  0809073978 ISBN 13:  9780809073979
Editorial: Hill & Wang Pub, 2000
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