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The Madman and the Assassin

Author : Scott Martelle
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613730217
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Madman and the Assassin written by Scott Martelle and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. The killing of Booth made Corbett an instant celebrity who became the object of fascination and of derision. Corbett was an English immigrant, a hatter by trade, who was likely poisoned by mercury. A devout Christian, he castrated himself so that his sexual urges would not distract him from serving God, which he did as a street evangelist and preacher. He was one of the first volunteers to join the US Army in the first days of the Civil War, a path that would in time land him in the notorious Andersonville prison camp. Eventually released in a prisoner exchange, he would end up in the squadron that cornered Booth in Virginia. The Madman and the Assassin is the first full-length biography of Boston Corbett, a man who was something of a prototypical modern American, thrust into the spotlight during a national news event. His story also encompasses tragedy—his wife died when he was young, and he struggled with poverty and his own mental health—as it weaves through some of the biggest events in nineteenth century America. Scott Martelle is a professional journalist and the author of The Admiral and the Ambassador, and Detroit: A Biography, and is an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times.

Blood on the Moon

Author : Edward Steers
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813191515
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Moon written by Edward Steers and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-10-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood on the Moon examines the evidence, myths, and lies surrounding the political assassination that dramatically altered the course of American history. Was John Wilkes Booth a crazed loner acting out of revenge, or was he the key player in a wide conspiracy aimed at removing the one man who had crushed the Confederacy's dream of independence? Edward Steers Jr. crafts an intimate, engaging narrative of the events leading to Lincoln's death and the political, judicial, and cultural aftermaths of his assassination.

Silent Assassin

Author : Leo J. Maloney
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786029927
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Silent Assassin written by Leo J. Maloney and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Black Ops veteran and author of Termination Orders, a military thriller featuring an unthinkable conspiracy from the deepest corridors of power. Silent Assassin Code named Cobra, former CIA agent Dan Morgan is pulled in when every other option has failed. His mission: find Nikolai Novokoff, a ruthless KGB officer turned international arms dealer. Locate the weapons of mass destruction that the rogue terrorist is threatening to unleash on the world. And terminate with extreme prejudice… In the world of clandestine ops, where the line between friends and enemies is constantly shifting, especially in the halls of Washington, Morgan must survive a merciless maze of deceit—and risk everything—to stop a madman. “Silent Assassin has everything a thriller reader wants.”—Ben Coes, national bestselling author of The Last Refuge “A terrifyingly thrilling story.”—Michele McPhee, author of A Mob Story

Assassin

Author : Ted Bell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668034751
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Assassin written by Ted Bell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this explosive "New York Times" bestselling follow-up to "Hawke," secret agent Alexander Hawke receives word that someone is systematically murdering American diplomats and their families around the globe. On the trail of two killers, Hawke must stop a terrorist attack from crippling the nation.

The Assassin Who Gave Up His Gun

Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453235272
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Assassin Who Gave Up His Gun written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA target’s wife makes a cold-hearted assassin question his work/div DIVThe hitman adjusts his rifle sight in an apartment across the street from his mark. For thirty minutes he peers through his scope, watching the man he is about to kill. He waits patiently, for assassinations demand focus. One bullet is all he needs. When the job is done, he disappears./divDIV /divDIVThis is an ordinary working day for Richard Breckner, a hired gun on the payroll of one of America’s enemies. He kills for the money, holding no allegiance to his country and no scruples about murder. He will kill anyone, no matter whom, from an American reverend in Miami to his superior at the department. But then, on a job in Geneva, he kills a target who dies unafraid. Unnerved by the dead man’s steely confidence, Breckner turns on his employers. If he wishes to survive, the world’s finest assassin must remember how to care./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div

The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau

Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226727173
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau written by Charles E. Rosenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud. Although the role of genetics in behavior was widely accepted, these psychiatrists fiercely debated whether heredity had predisposed Guiteau to assassinate Garfield. Rosenberg's account allows us to consider one of the opening rounds in the controversy over the criminal responsibility of the insane, a debate that still rages today.

Assassin's Creed: Fragments - The Highlands Children

Author : Alain T. Puysségur
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 180336579X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Assassin's Creed: Fragments - The Highlands Children written by Alain T. Puysségur and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover this action-packed Assassin’s Creed Fragments novel about siblings tested and separated by the bloody carnage of war between England and Scotland. Scotland, 1296. The winds of rebellion are blowing. The wars of independence for Scotland are on the brink of changing the history of Great Britain. Under assault from King Edward I, the besieged city of Berwick-upon-Tweed is delivered into the hands of the English, who massacre and burn everything in their path. Aileas and Fillan, 16-year-old orphan twins, get separated on that horrific night. Aileas is carried away and disappears while Fillan manages to join forces with a Scottish clan fleeing to the north, into the very heart of the Highlands. The young man understands that they are to meet a mysterious group named the Brotherhood of Assassins, the only ones capable of protecting Fillan from the Order of the Templars, a group of warriors doggedly pursuing him. While he tries to find any trace of his sister, Fillan must delve into his past to understand his true destiny and discover why the birthmark he carries on his wrist makes him a target for the Order of the Templars. He must find out why his life is suddenly in danger, just as the cry for liberty resonates across all Scotland.

Assassin's Creed

Author : Oliver Bowden
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1405932112
Total Pages : 2000 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Assassin's Creed written by Oliver Bowden and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected together for the first time, all eight Assassin's Creed novels based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Titles in this Collection include: Underworld, Unity, Black Flag, Forsaken, Revelations, The Secret Crusade, Brotherhood, Renaissance. The covert war between two secret organizations, the shadowy Templar Knights and the elite Order of Assassins, has been raging for millennia. Following the murder of his father and brothers, Ezio Auditore di Firenze is entrusted with an ancient Codex, the key to a conspiracy that goes back to centuries. Ezio must avenge the deaths of his kinsmen and in doing so fulfil his destiny, and live by the laws of the Assassin's Creed. Ezio's quest will test him to his limits. And in such treacherous times, conspiracy is everywhere, even within the ranks of the brotherhood itself . . . We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins.

History of the Attempted Assassination of James A. Garfield

Author : John Stuart Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book History of the Attempted Assassination of James A. Garfield written by John Stuart Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas

Author : Harris Dousemetzis
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1998951391
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Killed Apartheid: The Life of Dimitri Tsafendas written by Harris Dousemetzis and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 September 1966, inside the House of Assembly in Cape Town, Dimitri Tsafendas stabbed to death Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa’s Prime Minister and so-called “architect of apartheid”. Tsafendas was immediately arrested and before he had even been questioned by the authorities, they declared him a madman without any political motive for the killing. In the Cape Supreme Court, Tsafendas was found unfit to stand trial on the grounds that he suffered from schizophrenia and that he had no political motive for killing Verwoerd. Tsafendas spent the next 28 years in custody, making him the longest-serving detainee in South African history. For most of his incarnation he was subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment by the prison authorities. From 2009 to 2018, Harris Dousemetzis extensively researched the assassination of Verwoerd and the life of Tsafendas. For this research, he travelled to South Africa, Mozambique, Greece, France, and Turkey, and interviewed about 150 people who either knew Tsafendas or Verwoerd or were involved with the case of the assassination. He discovered about 12,000 pages of documents on the case, most of them previously unpublished, in archival collections in South Africa, Portugal and the UK. Dousemetzis collaborated with prominent South African jurists, psychiatrists and psychologists, and concluded his research, by writing the Report to the Minister of Justice in the Matter of Dr. Verwoerd’s Assassination. The report conclusively proved that Tsafendas had assassinated Verwoerd for political reasons and that the apartheid authorities had orchestrated a massive operation to declare him insane and apolitical. This ground-breaking report and this book corrected the historical record regarding Verwoerd’s assassination and Tsafendas. The Man Who Killed Apartheid, based on Dousemetzis’s groundbreaking research, chronicles in detail Tsafendas’s life and conclusively demonstrates that he was a perfectly sane and deeply political person with a long history of political activism. At the same time, the book exposes the lie at the heart of apartheid’s posture on the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd and provides a rare picture of how the racist regime operated and what it was like to live and die under apartheid.

John Wilkes Booth

Author : Asia Booth Clarke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033612
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (336 download)

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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.

The Assassination of Lincoln

Author : Lloyd Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279490
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Assassination of Lincoln written by Lloyd Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War officially ended at Appomattox soon after President Lincoln?s second inauguration. During his first term he had been widely viewed by special-interest groups as a good-natured, indecisive bungler, and worse. In the South he was still despised, and many in the North, especially the radicals in the Republican party, distrusted and derided his leniency toward the vanquished. On the evening of April 14, 1865, an assassin?s bullet irrevocably altered the way Abraham Lincoln would be viewed by Americans. In life a cunning politician, Lincoln became in death a selfless martyr. Lloyd Lewis explicates the mythology that evolved out of Lincoln?s death, the outpouring of national grief, the pursuit of John Wilkes booth and the conspirators, booth?s fate, and the frequent moving and reburial of Lincoln?s coffin.

The suppressed truth about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Author : B. McCarty
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871182399
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The suppressed truth about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by B. McCarty and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Assassin

Author : Henk Van Woerden
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312420840
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Assassin written by Henk Van Woerden and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-07-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 6, 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas entered South Africa's parliament, gripping a wickedly long knife, and stabbed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd four times in the chest. This chilling study of the life of Tsafendas—the homeless, stateless, and loveless illegitimate son of a Greek father and a black African mother—gives us acrystalline vision of the tragic consequences of apartheid.

The Life, Crime, and Capture Of John Wilkes Booth

Author : George Alfred Townsend
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387055196
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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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 2023-09-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

American Assassins

Author : James W. Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691024608
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book American Assassins written by James W. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1982-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Richard Lawrence, who attempted to shoot President Andrew Jackson in 1835, to the assailants of contemporary American political leaders, this book probes the lives of sixteen individuals who tried to kill or did kill our presidents and other prominent politicians. Lawrence, who misfired two pistols one after the other at a frail and elderly Jackson, thought himself to be King Richard III of England. He was so obviously insane that he was acquitted of his crime, to spend the rest of his life in a mental institution. What of the other assassins? asks James W. Clarke. Was John Wilkes Booth nothing other than a crazy actor, motivated by an insanely jealous desire for fame and recognition? Were the anarchist beliefs of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz, the delusions of a madman? Can Sirhan Sirhan's Arab nationalism be dismissed as an expression of oedipal conflict? In studies of the sixteen assassins and would-be assassins, Professor Clarke introduces evidence of real differences among men and women who until now have been lumped together under the rubric of what the author calls a pathological theory of assassination. With assassination attempts increasing dramatically in number, this book clarifies our thinking about an important subject: social commentators--historians, psychiatrists, and journalists--have been mistaken in categorizing all the attackers as delusional, deranged, or schizophrenic. It is comforting to ignore the political experience of the violent people considered in this book and to apply the label of severe mental illness to anyone seeking to harm an important political leader. Professor Clarke deprives us of that comfort by considering the actions of his subjects in their cultural, political, and social contexts and by treating not only their subjective realities but the objective historical circumstances they faced. He draws on a wide range of primary sources to convey a mood in each case that contributes to an understanding of the attacker and the times in which he lived. Emphasizing the differences among his subjects, he classifies them into four basic psychological types that summarize patterns in their behavior and make important distinctions among their emotional and cognitive characteristics. Professor Clarke ends his book with a series of searching questions about the effects of media coverage of assassination attempts and about our methods of protecting the safety of our political leaders. He concludes that the social costs of domestic surveillance would outweigh its dubious benefits but that confiscation of handguns is imperative to reduce the increasing occurrence of assassinations.

The Assassin's Touch

Author : Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429908483
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Assassin's Touch written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elegantly told and interspersed with delicious bits of history" (Kirkus Reviews), Laura Joh Rowland's The Assassin's Touch is a mystery set in feudal Japan you won't want to miss! May 1695. During a horse race at Edo Castle the chief of the shogun's intelligence service, Ejima Senzaemon, drops dead as his horse gallops across the finish line—the fourth in a recent series of sudden deaths of high-ranking officials. Sano Ichiro is ordered to investigate, despite his recent promotion to chamberlain and his new duties as the shogun's second-in-command. Meanwhile, Sano's wife, Reiko, is invited to attend the trial of Yugao, a beautiful young woman accused of stabbing her parents and sister to death. The woman has confessed, but the magistrate believes there is more to this case than meets the eye. He delays his verdict and asks Reiko to prove Yugao's guilt or innocence. As their investigations continue, both Sano and Reiko come to realize that the man he is trying to hunt and the woman she is desperate to save are somehow connected. A single fingerprint on Ejima's temple puts Sano on the trail of an underground movement to overthrow the regime, and in the path of an assassin with a deadly touch.