John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day write by Arthur F. Loux. This book was released on 2014-09-03. John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day
John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day write by Arthur F. Loux. This book was released on 2014-09-06. John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
He Has Shot the President!
He Has Shot the President! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook He Has Shot the President! write by Don Brown. This book was released on 2014-04. He Has Shot the President! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me
Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me write by John Wilkes Booth. This book was released on 1997. Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fortune's Fool
Fortune's Fool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fortune's Fool write by Terry Alford. This book was released on 2015. Fortune's Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
