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Author : Alfred George Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437840490
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Life, Times and Capture of John Wilkes Booth written by Alfred George Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Swanson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545495806
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Chasing Lincoln's Killer written by James L. Swanson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
Author : Terry Alford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195054121
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Fortune's Fool written by Terry Alford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, his friends were stunned--not only by the murder but by the thought that someone they knew as fantastically gifted, successful and kind-hearted could commit such a crime. Fortune's Fool, the first biography of Booth ever written, is the life story of this talented and troubling individual.
Author : Michael W. Kauffman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430618
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book American Brutus written by Michael W. Kauffman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic elements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even more fascinating. Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremost Lincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to a deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of the Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array of archival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on the background and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of his plot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates of the conspirators. Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects common misperceptions and analyzes the political motivation behind Booth’s plan to unseat Lincoln, in whom the assassin saw a treacherous autocrat, “an American Caesar.” In preparing his study, Kauffman spared no effort getting at the truth: He even lived in Booth’s house, and re-created key parts of Booth’s escape. Thanks to Kauffman’s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of this defining event in our nation’s history, and they will come to see how public sentiment about Booth at the time of the assassination and ever since has made an accurate account of his actions and motives next to impossible–until now. In nearly 140 years there has been an overwhelming body of literature on the Lincoln assassination, much of it incomplete and oftentimes contradictory. In American Brutus, Kauffman finally makes sense of an incident whose causes and effects reverberate to this day. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times controversial, this will become the definitive text on a watershed event in American history.
Author : James L. Swanson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061803979
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Manhunt written by James L. Swanson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 500 pages. 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 : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Return of Assassin John Wilkes Booth written by W. C. Jameson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling and revealing information in the form of papers and diaries have recently been found in private collections materials which provide greater insight into the events leading up to the assassination of Lincoln as well as details of the pursuit and capture of the man the government claimed was Booth. This new information along with a critical reexamination of the traditional historical materials provide more than sufficient reason to challenge the long-held assumption that John Wilkes Booth was killed by government agents in Virginia. Leading the reader through a series of amazing coincidences and details, this book presents startling evidence that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was never captured, but escaped to live for decades, continue his acting career, marry, and have children!
Author : Tom Taylor
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Our American Cousin written by Tom Taylor and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Author : Thomas Jones
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth By a Man Who Helped Him Escape (Annotated) written by Thomas Jones and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of the Lincoln assassination, Thomas A. Jones was 45 years old and had spent the years of the American Civil War working “with zeal” in the Confederate cause in Southern Maryland. He primarily acted as an aid to Confederate spies moving through Charles County and helping the substantial intelligence network by moving mail. By the time that Jones wrote this account of having helped John Wilkes Booth in his escape, his assessment of Abraham Lincoln had gone through a transformation. As he tells us, the light of reason had been blinded and he now saw Lincoln as a good and great man. This is but one small piece of the drama that changed history. But Jones was there and was part of it. It’s an important account that fills in the days between Booth’s deed, and his capture and death. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Author : G.J.A. O'Toole
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219866X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Cosgrove Report written by G.J.A. O'Toole and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique historical thriller takes on the true mysteries of Lincoln’s assassination “with verve, humor and impressive scholarship” (Time). In 1868, Pinkerton Detective Nicholas Cosgrove is tasked with tracking down John Wilkes Booth, a man who should be three years in his grave. Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, was also a skilled actor and master of disguise, and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton suspects he may still be at large. But Cosgrove unearths more than just the corpse of a man who is decidedly not Booth. The conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln was much larger, and far more dangerous than anyone suspects. Now, more than a century later, Cosgrove’s report on his harrowing investigation has fallen into the hands of private eye Michael Croft. Charged with verifying Cosgrove’s hair-raising tale—as well as its explosive implications—Croft presents the manuscript here with his own annotations. With meticulous research into official records as well as the forgotten memoirs of eyewitnesses, former CIA agent G. J. A. O’Toole has crafted a highly original novel—both a gripping historical thriller and a shockingly plausible solution to some of the most enthralling mysteries surrounding Lincoln’s assassination. “A humdinger of a mystery . . . transports us to a landscape at once familiar and as exotic as a sinister, murderous oz.” —The Washington Star “It has everything—mystery, adventure, history, and a delightful unsuspected ending. . . . The unique tale of an American Sherlock Holmes.” —Seattle Times Magazine “With impressive scholarship and sharp wit, O’Toole lays bare for the non-specialist the real and persistent mysteries that still surround the trial of the Lincoln assassins. Altogether, highly entertaining and highly informative.” —Historical Novel Society
Author : John Wilkes Booth
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069673
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me written by John Wilkes Booth and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. 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.
Author : George Alfred Townsend
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9358595582
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (585 download)
Download or read book The Life, Crime, And Capture of John Wilkes Booth written by George Alfred Townsend and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth" is a compelling historical account written by George Alfred Townsend. In this gripping narrative, Townsend delves into the intriguing life and fateful actions of one of America's most notorious figures, John Wilkes Booth. Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, Townsend unveils the complex motivations, personal struggles, and ideological beliefs that shaped Booth's path towards the tragic assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. From Booth's upbringing in a prominent acting family to his radicalization and ultimate act of violence, the book explores the events leading up to the fateful night at Ford's Theatre and the subsequent manhunt for Booth's capture. With an eye for detail and a deep understanding of the historical context, Townsend paints a comprehensive portrait of Booth, shedding light on the societal, political, and personal factors that culminated in this infamous crime. "The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth" offers readers a gripping and thought-provoking exploration of one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Author : Asia Booth Clarke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033612
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (336 download)
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth written by Asia Booth Clarke and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a biographical sketch of the American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Notes that Booth shot and killed the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567112221
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)
Download or read book John Wilkes Booth and the Civil War written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets the life story of the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln against the backdrop of the Civil War.
Author : David Stacton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174712
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Judges of the Secret Court written by David Stacton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Stacton’s The Judges of The Secret Court is a long-lost triumph of American fiction as well as one of the finest books ever written about the Civil War. Stacton’s gripping and atmospheric story revolves around the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, members of a famous theatrical family. Edwin is a great actor, himself a Hamlet-like character whose performance as Hamlet will make him an international sensation. Wilkes is a blustering mediocrity on stage who is determined, however, to be an actor in history, and whose assassination of Abraham Lincoln will change America. Stacton’s novel about how the roles we play become, for better or for worse, the lives we lead, takes us back to the day of the assassination, immersing us in the farrago of bombast that fills Wilkes’s head while following his footsteps up to the fatal encounter at Ford’s Theatre. The political maneuvering around Lincoln’s deathbed and Wilkes’s desperate flight and ignominious capture then set the stage for a political show trial that will condemn not only the guilty but the—at least relatively—innocent. For as Edwin Booth broods helplessly many years later, and as Lincoln, whose tragic death and wisdom overshadow this tale, also knew, “We are all accessories before or after some fact. . . . We are all guilty of being ourselves.”
Author : Anna Myers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802723802
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Assassin written by Anna Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella isn't evil. But even people with good intentions can end up doing bad things. Especially when they meet people with the power to persuade them to do almost anything, like John Wilkes Booth-the most charismatic and famous actor of his time. So when Booth sets his sights on Bella, an assistant seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln, to help with his plot to kidnap President Lincoln, he is able to persuade her to betray her president and even turn her back on the boy she has loved her entire life. Bella believes Booth is only trying to force the North to release Southern war prisoners, and will not harm her dear friend Mr. Lincoln. But the kidnapping plot fails, and now Booth will stop at nothing--even if it means harming Bella in the process. Anna Myers has crafted a provocative new look at the Lincoln assassination through the eyes of both a young White House insider and the assassin himself. An author's note provides the historical background to this tragic event.
Author : C.C. Colbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596431253
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Booth written by C.C. Colbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the life of John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Author : James L. Swanson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061989851
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Bloody Crimes written by James L. Swanson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt—brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous 20 -day funeral that took Abraham Lincoln’s body home to Springfield. A true tale full of fascinating twists and turns, and lavishly illustrated with dozens of rare historical images—some never before seen—Bloody Crimes is a fascinating companion to Swanson’s Manhunt and a riveting true-crime thriller that will electrify civil war buffs, general readers, and everyone in between.
