President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning

Author: Harold Holzer
Title: President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning
Publication: Library of America, 2015
Edition: Illustrated

Description: Hardcover. The aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. New tightly bound hardcover with new DJ. 8vo. (6⅓ x 1¼ x 9½ ). Clean text free of marks or underlining. 480 pp.

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Experience the drama of Abraham Lincoln's assassination through this curated selection of eyewitness reports, medical records, and more--for fans of Killing Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic immediacy of Lincoln's assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation's mourning for the martyred president. The fateful story is told in more than eighty original documents--eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries, and poems--by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him.

Courtroom testimony exposes the intricacies of the plot to kill the president; eulogies by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and Benjamin Disraeli and poetry by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Julia Ward Howe give eloquent voice to grief; two emotional speeches by Frederick Douglass--one of them never before published--reveal his evolving perspective on Lincoln's legacy. Together these voices combine to reveal the full panorama of one the most shocking and tragic events in our history.

Seller ID: 2630

Subject: Law, US Politics and Government , War