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Author : Don Brown
Release : 2014-04
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 241/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis He Has Shot the President! by : Don Brown
Download or read book He Has Shot the President! written by Don Brown. This book was released on 2014-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
Author : Arthur F. Loux
Release : 2014-09-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 278/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day by : Arthur F. Loux
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day written by Arthur F. Loux. This book was released on 2014-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1865, at the age of 26, Booth had much to lose: a loving family, hosts of friends, adoring women, professional success as one of America's foremost actors, and the promise of yet more fame and fortune. Yet he formed a daring conspiracy to abduct Lincoln and barter him for Confederate prisoners of war. The Civil War ended before Booth could carry out his plan, so he assassinated the president, believing him to be a tyrant who had turned the once-proud Union into an engine of oppression that had devastated the South. This book gives a day-by-day account of Booth's complex life--from his birth May 10, 1838, to his death April 26, 1865, and the aftermath--and offers a new understanding of the crime that shocked a nation.
Author : Arthur F. Loux
Release : 2014-09-06
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 090/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day by : Arthur F. Loux
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day written by Arthur F. Loux. This book was released on 2014-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1865, at the age of 26, Booth had much to lose: a loving family, hosts of friends, adoring women, professional success as one of America's foremost actors, and the promise of yet more fame and fortune. Yet he formed a daring conspiracy to abduct Lincoln and barter him for Confederate prisoners of war. The Civil War ended before Booth could carry out his plan, so he assassinated the president, believing him to be a tyrant who had turned the once-proud Union into an engine of oppression that had devastated the South. This book gives a day-by-day account of Booth's complex life--from his birth May 10, 1838, to his death April 26, 1865, and the aftermath--and offers a new understanding of the crime that shocked a nation.
Author : James L. Swanson
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Manhunt by : James L. Swanson
Download or read book Manhunt written by James L. Swanson. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an Apple TV+ Series “A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history--the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry troops on a wild, 12-day chase from the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln’s own blood relics Manhunt is a fully documented, fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, it is history as it’s never been read before.
Author : John Wilkes Booth
Release : 1997
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me by : John Wilkes Booth
Download or read book Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me written by John Wilkes Booth. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the known writings of John Wilkes Booth are included in this collection. Of this wealth of material, the most important item is a previously unpublished twenty-page manuscript discovered at the Players Club in Manhattan. Written by Booth in 1860 in a form similar to Mark Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, it makes clear that his hatred for Lincoln was formed early and was deeply rooted in his pro-slavery and pro-Southern ideology. Also included in the nearly seventy documents are six love letters to a seventeen-year-old Boston girl, Isabel Sumner, written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln; several explicit statements of Booth's political convictions; and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. The documents show that Booth, although opinionated and impulsive, was not an isolated madman. Rather, he was a highly successful actor and ladies' man who also was a Confederate agent. Along with many others, he believed that Lincoln was a tyrant whose policies threatened civil liberties. --From publisher's description.
