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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Audiobook
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Audio CD
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Narrator
- John Bedford
- ISBN
- 9781442337497
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The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was--besides a killer--is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln's death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes's older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of nineteen, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln's assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country's most notorious assassin. These ambitious brothers, born to theatrical parents, enacted a tale of mutual jealousy and resentment worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. From childhood, the stage-struck brothers were rivals for the approval of their father, legendary British actor Junius Brutus Booth. After his death, Edwin and John Wilkes were locked in a fierce contest to claim his legacy of fame. This strange family history and powerful sibling rivalry were the crucibles of John Wilkes's character, exacerbating his political passions and driving him into a life of conspiracy. To re-create the lost world of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, this book takes readers on a panoramic tour of nineteenth-century America, from the streets of 1840s Baltimore to the gold fields of California, from the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama to the glittering mansions of Gilded Age New York. Edwin, ruthlessly competitive and gifted, did everything he could to lock his younger brother out of the theatrical game. As he came of age, John Wilkes found his plans for stardom thwarted by his older sibling's meteoric rise. Their divergent paths--Edwin's an upward race to riches and social prominence, and John's a downward spiral into failure and obscurity--kept pace with the hardening of their opposite political views and their mutual dislike. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln's assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family--and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln's death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1442337494
ISBN-13
9781442337497
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309417489
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Thoughts Be Bloody : The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Historical
Publication Year
2010
Language
English
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5in.
Item Length
5.9in.
Item Width
5in.
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Filled with ambition, rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy, this story of the celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and the two sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, who competed to wear his crown, is as gripping as a fine work of fiction. Yet, given the role that the younger son played in murdering President Abraham Lincoln, My Thoughts Be Bloody is simultaneously an important work of history-the best account I have ever read of the complex forces that led John Wilkes Booth to carry a gun into Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals, "Premonition looms in every chapter, even in each epigraph, as the course of the war turns in favor of the North and the mind of John Wilkes Booth grows more warped. The narrativeracesahead to the fraternal clash because Ms. Titoners"s control is wire-tight; and the end, which we know anyway, is crushing." -- James Cornelius, Curator of the Lincoln Papers at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Provocative and revealing, Titone's first book provides another dimension to an iconic national calamity by alleging that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in part to establish his own importance within a family of theatrical rivals… Titone's theory adds to the narrative without dismissing the political and cultural reasons for Wilkes Booth's plot-his Confederate and proslavery sympathies have often been noted. She is most impressive in her use of primary sources and in her literary style."- Library Journal, "Nora Titone's energetic narrative persuades a reader that history must add to its indictment of Booth the crime of fratricide." --Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara, Provocative and revealing, Titone's first book provides another dimension to an iconic national calamity by alleging that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in part to establish his own importance within a family of theatrical rivals& Titone’s theory adds to the narrative without dismissing the political and cultural reasons for Wilkes Booth’s plothis Confederate and proslavery sympathies have often been noted. She is most impressive in her use of primary sources and in her literary style.� Library Journal, Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, "what made him pull that trigger?" Bravo on a marvelous achievement. -- Jay Winik, author of April 1865 and The Great Upheaval, "Titone uncovers a narrative as old as Cain and Abel. She also casts the nineteenth century's greatest True Crime story in a new light." -- New England Quarterly Review, "This is narrative history at its most engaging and edifying: the forgotten story of a sibling rivalry, shot through with Shakespearean overtones, that played itself out tragically on the national stage. With the authority of a historian, and the dramatic talents of a novelist, Nora Titone has written a book full of surprises that will fundamentally change the way Americans think about John Wilkes Booth." --Toby Lester, author of The Fourth Part of the World, "This is narrative history at its most engaging and edifying: the forgotten story of a sibling rivalry, shot through with Shakespearean overtones, that played itself out tragically on the national stage. With the authority of a historian, and the dramatic talents of a novelist, Nora Titone has written a book full of surprises that will fundamentally change the way Americans think about John Wilkes Booth."--Toby Lester, author ofThe Fourth Part of the World, “The Booth family, like most involved with creative endeavors, produced brilliant eccentrics. What began as sibling rivalry transformed into something darker and deadly as national divisions became mirrored in family squabbles. How ironic that the greatest family of the American theatre produced the assassin of the greatest President who supported American theatre. For anyone wanting to know how this could happen, My Thoughts Be Bloody is the book to read.� --Tom Schwartz, Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, "Premonition looms in every chapter, even in each epigraph, as the course of the war turns in favor of the North and the mind of John Wilkes Booth grows more warped. The narrative races ahead to the fraternal clash because Ms. Titone’s control is wire-tight; and the end, which we know anyway, is crushing." -- James Cornelius, Curator of the Lincoln Papers at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, "The Booth family, like most involved with creative endeavors, produced brilliant eccentrics. What began as sibling rivalry transformed into something darker and deadly as national divisions became mirrored in family squabbles. How ironic that the greatest family of the American theatre produced the assassin of the greatest President who supported American theatre. For anyone wanting to know how this could happen,My Thoughts Be Bloodyis the book to read."--Tom Schwartz, Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, "Nora Titone's energetic narrative persuades a reader that history must add to its indictment of Booth the crime of fratricide."--Thomas Mallon, author ofHenry and Clara, Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question. In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, “what made him pull that trigger?� Bravo on a marvelous achievement. -- Jay Winik, author of April 1865 and The Great Upheaval, "Thenewlight [Titone] shines on the Booth family provides some compelling context for the Lincoln assassination."-- The Dallas Morning News, "The Booth family, like most involved with creative endeavors, produced brilliant eccentrics. What began as sibling rivalry transformed into something darker and deadly as national divisions became mirrored in family squabbles. How ironic that the greatest family of the American theatre produced the assassin of the greatest President who supported American theatre. For anyone wanting to know how this could happen, My Thoughts Be Bloody is the book to read." --Tom Schwartz, Director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, "Titone uncovers a narrative as old as Cain and Abel. She also casts the nineteenth century’s greatest True Crime story in a new light." -- New England Quarterly Review, Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? InMy Thoughts Be Bloody? young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely explored this question.' In doing so, she has crafted a fascinating psychological drama about one of the central events of the Civil War: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This book promises to stimulate lively historical debate, and will be a treat for every Civil War buff who always pondered that haunting question, "what made him pull that trigger'"? Bravo on a marvelous achievement.-- Jay Winik, author ofApril 1865andThe Great Upheaval, "Filled with ambition, rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy, this story of the celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and the two sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, who competed to wear his crown, is as gripping as a fine work of fiction. Yet, given the role that the younger son played in murdering President Abraham Lincoln, My Thoughts Be Bloody is simultaneously an important work of historythe best account I have ever read of the complex forces that led John Wilkes Booth to carry a gun into Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865." --Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
16 Vols.
Dewey Decimal
973.7092 B
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
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