Diary Of Junius Brutus Booth
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Diary Of Junius Brutus Booth
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Author : Junius Brutus Booth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
Diary Of Junius Brutus Booth written by Junius Brutus Booth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with categories.
Theatrical diary.
Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth From His Birth To The Present Time
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Author : Junius Brutus Booth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817
Memoirs Of Junius Brutus Booth From His Birth To The Present Time written by Junius Brutus Booth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1817 with Actors categories.
Junius Brutus Booth
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Author : Stephen M. Archer
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2010-08-20
Junius Brutus Booth written by Stephen M. Archer and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this, the first thoroughly researched scholarly biography of British actor Junius Brutus Booth, Stephen M. Archer reveals Booth to have been an artist of considerable range and a man of sensitivity and intellect. Archer provides a clear account of Booth’s professional and personal life and places him in relationship to his contemporaries, particularly Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. From 1817 to 1852 Junius Brutus Booth toured throughout North America, enjoying a reputation as the most distinguished Shakespearean tragedian on the American continent. Still, he yearned for success on the British stage, a goal he never attained. His public image as a drunken, dangerous lunatic obscured a private life filled with the richness of a close and loyal family. The worldwide fame assured for the Booth family of actors by John Wilkes Booth’s bone-shattering leap from the President’s box had eluded Junius Brutus Booth throughout his lifelong exile in America. But from that event until today, no American family of actors has stimulated such scrutiny as the Booths. Eight years of research, pursuing Booth from Amsterdam to San Francisco, has resulted in an accurate, fascinating narrative that both records and illuminates the actor’s life.
Right Or Wrong God Judge Me
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Author : John Wilkes Booth
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1997
Right Or Wrong God Judge Me written by John Wilkes Booth and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
All of the known writings of John Wilkes Booth are included in this collection. Of this wealth of material, the most important item is a previously unpublished twenty-page manuscript discovered at the Players Club in Manhattan. Written by Booth in 1860 in a form similar to Mark Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, it makes clear that his hatred for Lincoln was formed early and was deeply rooted in his pro-slavery and pro-Southern ideology. Also included in the nearly seventy documents are six love letters to a seventeen-year-old Boston girl, Isabel Sumner, written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln; several explicit statements of Booth's political convictions; and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. The documents show that Booth, although opinionated and impulsive, was not an isolated madman. Rather, he was a highly successful actor and ladies' man who also was a Confederate agent. Along with many others, he believed that Lincoln was a tyrant whose policies threatened civil liberties. --From publisher's description.
My Thoughts Be Bloody
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Author : Nora Titone
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-10-19
My Thoughts Be Bloody written by Nora Titone and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with History categories.
The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of nineteen, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. These ambitious brothers, born to theatrical parents, enacted a tale of mutual jealousy and resentment worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. From childhood, the stage-struck brothers were rivals for the approval of their father, legendary British actor Junius Brutus Booth. After his death, Edwin and John Wilkes were locked in a fierce contest to claim his legacy of fame. This strange family history and powerful sibling rivalry were the crucibles of John Wilkes’s character, exacerbating his political passions and driving him into a life of conspiracy. To re-create the lost world of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, this book takes readers on a panoramic tour of nineteenth-century America, from the streets of 1840s Baltimore to the gold fields of California, from the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama to the glittering mansions of Gilded Age New York. Edwin, ruthlessly competitive and gifted, did everything he could to lock his younger brother out of the theatrical game. As he came of age, John Wilkes found his plans for stardom thwarted by his older sibling’s meteoric rise. Their divergent paths—Edwin’s an upward race to riches and social prominence, and John’s a downward spiral into failure and obscurity—kept pace with the hardening of their opposite political views and their mutual dislike. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
John Wilkes Booth Day By Day
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Author : Arthur F. Loux
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-09-03
John Wilkes Booth Day By Day written by Arthur F. Loux and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-03 with History categories.
By 1865, at the age of 26, Booth had much to lose: a loving family, hosts of friends, adoring women, professional success as one of America's foremost actors, and the promise of yet more fame and fortune. Yet he formed a daring conspiracy to abduct Lincoln and barter him for Confederate prisoners of war. The Civil War ended before Booth could carry out his plan, so he assassinated the president, believing him to be a tyrant who had turned the once-proud Union into an engine of oppression that had devastated the South. This book gives a day-by-day account of Booth's complex life--from his birth May 10, 1838, to his death April 26, 1865, and the aftermath--and offers a new understanding of the crime that shocked a nation.
Sketches Of Tudor Hall And The Booth Family
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Author : Ella V. Mahoney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Sketches Of Tudor Hall And The Booth Family written by Ella V. Mahoney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Tudor Hall, Belair, Md categories.
" ... Junius Brutus Booth was born on the first day of May, 1796, in the parish of Pancras, London. His grandmother, Elizabeth Wilkes, was a relative of John Wilkes ... Junius Brutus, the son of Richard Booth received a classical education ... In January, 1821, at the age of twenty-five, "he married Mary Ann Holmes [b. 27 June 1802] ... In April he took passage for himself wife and pony in the schooner 'The Two Brothers' for America" ... [landing at] Norfolk on the 30th of June, 1821 ... He bought a farm near Belair, Harford County, Maryland ..." He died in 1852 and " ... was buried in Old Baltimore Cemetery."--Page 22-25. Mary Ann Booth died 22 October 1885 and is also buried in Old Baltimore Cemetery. Their son John Wilkes Booth assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. Includes description of events involving Booth and others following the assassination of President Lincoln
A Player And A Gentleman
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Author : Amy E Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2018-10-10
A Player And A Gentleman written by Amy E Hughes and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hardworking actor, playwright, and stage manager Harry Watkins (1825–94) was also a prolific diarist. For fifteen years Watkins regularly recorded the plays he saw, the roles he performed, the books he read, and his impressions of current events. Performing across the U.S., Watkins collaborated with preeminent performers and producers, recording his successes and failures as well as his encounters with celebrities such as P. T. Barnum, Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Forrest, Anna Cora Mowatt, and Lucy Stone. His is the only known diary of substantial length and scope written by a U.S. actor before the Civil War—making Watkins, essentially, the antebellum equivalent of Samuel Pepys. Theater historians Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs have selected, edited, and annotated excerpts from the diary in an edition that offers a vivid glimpse of how ordinary people like Watkins lived, loved, struggled, and triumphed during one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history. The selections in A Player and a Gentleman are drawn from a more expansive digital archive of the complete diary. The book, like its digital counterpart, will richly enhance our knowledge of antebellum theater culture and daily life in the U.S. during this period.
John Wilkes Booth
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Author : Asia Booth Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date :
John Wilkes Booth written by Asia Booth Clarke and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Features a biographical sketch of the American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Notes that Booth shot and killed the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
In The Houses Of Their Dead The Lincolns The Booths And The Spirits
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Author : Terry Alford
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-14
In The Houses Of Their Dead The Lincolns The Booths And The Spirits written by Terry Alford and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with History categories.
“Here is Lincoln in the Bardo—for real. You couldn’t make it up—necromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President.” —Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in “blood writing” whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth. Alford’s expansive, richly-textured chronicle follows the two families across the nineteenth century, uncovering new facts and stories about Abraham and Mary while drawing indelible portraits of the Booths—from patriarch Julius, a famous actor in his own right, to brother Edwin, the most talented member of the family and a man who feared peacock feathers, to their confidant Adam Badeau, who would become, strangely, the ghostwriter for President Ulysses S. Grant. At every turn, Alford shows that despite the progress of the age—the glass hypodermic syringe, electromagnetic induction, and much more—death remained ever-present, and thus it was only rational for millions of Americans, from the president on down, to cling to beliefs that seem anything but. A novelistic narrative of two exceptional American families set against the convulsions their times, In the Houses of Their Dead ultimately leads us to consider how ghost stories helped shape the nation.