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Genre/Form: | Case studies Études de cas |
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Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth; Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth; John Wilkes Booth; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James L Swanson; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) |
ISBN: | 0060518499 9780060518493 9780060518509 0060518502 |
OCLC Number: | 61253945 |
Description: | 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | "I had this strange dream again last night" -- "I have done it" -- "His sacred blood" -- "We have assassinated the President" -- "Find the murderers" -- "That vile rabble of human bloodhounds" -- "Hunted like a dog" -- "I have some little pride" -- "Useless, useless" -- "So runs the world away." |
Responsibility: | James L. Swanson. |
More information: |
Abstract:
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through 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. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, this book is a fully documented work, but it is also a tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal, an hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters.--From publisher description.
Notes:
by
tprather (WorldCat user on 2006-04-28)
For a complete history of the Lincoln assassination plot and aftermath, see Blood on the Moon by Edward Steers, Jr.
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