American Brutus
John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Written by Michael W. Kauffman
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 18, 2005
Price: $16.95
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...
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