FORTUNE`S FOOL: THE LIFE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH

Author: Terry Alford
Edition: 1 edition
Publication Date: April 14, 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0195054121
ISBN-13: 978-0195054125
Pages: 464 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 11M

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With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president`s untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was even more shocking-for no one could have imagined that this fantastically gifted actor and well-liked man could commit such an atrocity.

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