Format:
Online-Ressource (249 p)
ISBN:
9780813166087
Content:
When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon -- fresh out of medical school -- struggled to keep the president alive while Mary Todd Lincoln moaned at
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Description based upon print version of record
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Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Secret about Booth; 2 Washington City Then; 3 The Great Illumination; 4 The Making of an Assassin; 5 Plans and Dreams; 6 Nothing Exactly According to Plan; 7 Shuffling History; 8 The Turning of the Tide; 9 Looking Forward to a Memorable Evening; 10 Booth's End Game; 11 'Tis the Wink of an Eye; 12 Thunderstruck; 13 Their Precious Burden; 14 Enough Evidence to Hang Booth; 15 Waiting for History; 16 That's the Last of Him; 17 Caught in the American Nightmare; 18 Grief and Greed; 19 The Most Elaborate Funeral in US History; 20 The Manhunt Closes In
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21 Unrivaled Honors and an Unexpected Invoice22 Paltry Meanness; 23 History Forgot Tenth Street; 24 Lincoln Would Not Be the Last to Die at Ford's; 25 A Place to Make Him Comfortable; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813166100
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813166087
Additional Edition:
Print version Lincoln's Final Hours : Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President
Language:
English
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