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- Narrative Type
- book
- Type
- book
- Intended Audience
- General/trade
- ISBN
- 9781598533736
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1598533738
ISBN-13
9781598533736
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201645664
Product Key Features
Book Title
President Lincoln Assassinated!! : the Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
28.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"With the deft mastery we have come to expect from him, Harold Holzer compiles a vivid, riveting, and at times profoundly moving narrative of the immediate reaction to perhaps the greatest cataclysm in American history, and of the sudden and unexpected need to come to terms with the death of the complicated man at the center of it, Abraham Lincoln." -- Ken Burns, filmmaker "As it moves between Washington and the American heartland, from the crime itself to all the mourning and retribution it engendered, this gathering of essential documents and eye-popping curiosities recreates Lincoln's murder with an extraordinary you-are-there vividness. I cannot think of another anthology--on any subject--that has been assembled with such narrative power and urgency." -- Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara "The national tragedy that brought the Civil War to its appalling climax takes on new life and meaning in this remarkable compilation." -- Stephen W. Sears, author of Landscape Turned Red A Noteworthy Book for 2015 A History Book Club Selection, As it moves between Washington and the American heartland, from the crime itself to all the mourning and retribution it engendered, this gathering of essential documents and eye-popping curiosities recreates Lincoln's murder with an extraordinary you-are-there vividness. I cannot think of another anthology-on any subject-that has been assembled with such narrative power and urgency., With the deft mastery we have come to expect from him, Harold Holzer compiles a vivid, riveting, and at times profoundly moving narrative of the immediate reaction to perhaps the greatest cataclysm in American history, and of the sudden and unexpected need to come to terms with the death of the complicated man at the center of it, Abraham Lincoln., The national tragedy that brought the Civil War to its appalling climax takes on new life and meaning in this remarkable compilation.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
973.7092
Synopsis
For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented first hand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. The fateful story is told in more than 80 original documents, eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries and poems, by more than 75 participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him., For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer ( The Civil War in 150 Objects ) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
E457.5
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