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American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael...
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780375507854
- Book Title
- American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Criminals & Outlaws, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 30.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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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 impossibleuntil 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. From the Hardcover edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037550785x
ISBN-13
9780375507854
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038264723
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Criminals & Outlaws, United States / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E457.5.K38 2004
Reviews
Advance praise forAmerican Brutus "In this definitive reinvestigation of the Lincoln assassination, Michael Kauffman has at long last captured the real John Wilkes Booth. Writing with confidence and clarity, Kauffman masterfully cuts through the thicket of conflicting rumors, false stories, and wrong assumptions, that have corrupted many earlier studies.American Brutusis simply the most comprehensive and credible account ever published about the Lincoln assassination. By unmasking Booth's real motivation while meticulously stripping away a century of accumulated folklore, Kauffman unlocks the mystery of why Lincoln was killed." GERALD POSNER, author ofCase ClosedandWhy America Slept "In this gripping, often surprising reexamination of America's most notorious crime, Michael W. Kauffman rescues the Lincoln assassination from the historical waxworks. Combining exhaustive research, computer technology, and a compulsively readable style, Kauffman clears away more than a century of misconceptions. This Booth is a greater actor, and a more cunning monster, than we ever imagined." RICHARD NORTON SMITH, executive director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-049075
Dewey Decimal
364.152/4/097309034
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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