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Author : Junius Brutus Booth
Release : 1817
Genre : Actors
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of Junius Brutus Booth, from His Birth to the Present Time; by : Junius Brutus Booth
Download or read book Memoirs of Junius Brutus Booth, from His Birth to the Present Time; written by Junius Brutus Booth. This book was released on 1817. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Junius Brutus Booth
Release : 1970
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of Junius Brutus Booth by : Junius Brutus Booth
Download or read book Memoirs of Junius Brutus Booth written by Junius Brutus Booth. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen M. Archer
Release : 2010-08-20
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 929/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Junius Brutus Booth by : Stephen M. Archer
Download or read book Junius Brutus Booth written by Stephen M. Archer. This book was released on 2010-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first thoroughly researched scholarly biography of British actor Junius Brutus Booth, Stephen M. Archer reveals Booth to have been an artist of considerable range and a man of sensitivity and intellect. Archer provides a clear account of Booth’s professional and personal life and places him in relationship to his contemporaries, particularly Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. From 1817 to 1852 Junius Brutus Booth toured throughout North America, enjoying a reputation as the most distinguished Shakespearean tragedian on the American continent. Still, he yearned for success on the British stage, a goal he never attained. His public image as a drunken, dangerous lunatic obscured a private life filled with the richness of a close and loyal family. The worldwide fame assured for the Booth family of actors by John Wilkes Booth’s bone-shattering leap from the President’s box had eluded Junius Brutus Booth throughout his lifelong exile in America. But from that event until today, no American family of actors has stimulated such scrutiny as the Booths. Eight years of research, pursuing Booth from Amsterdam to San Francisco, has resulted in an accurate, fascinating narrative that both records and illuminates the actor’s life.
Author : E. Lawrence Abel
Release : 2018-04-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 191/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him by : E. Lawrence Abel
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him written by E. Lawrence Abel. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancé women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.
Author : Nora Titone
Release : 2010-10-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 164/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis My Thoughts Be Bloody by : Nora Titone
Download or read book My Thoughts Be Bloody written by Nora Titone. This book was released on 2010-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history. The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
