John Wilkes Booth And The Women Who Loved Him
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John Wilkes Booth And The Women Who Loved Him
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Author : E. Lawrence Abel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-04-09
John Wilkes Booth And The Women Who Loved Him written by E. Lawrence Abel 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 2018-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.
Fates And Traitors
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Author : Jennifer Chiaverini
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Fates And Traitors written by Jennifer Chiaverini and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. John Wilkes Booth, the mercurial son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, committed one of the most notorious acts in American history—the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The subject of more than a century of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession, Booth is often portrayed as a shadowy figure, a violent loner whose single murderous act made him the most hated man in America. Lost to history until now is the story of the four women whom he loved and who loved him in return: Mary Ann, the steadfast matriarch of the Booth family; Asia, his loyal sister and confidante; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator’s daughter who adored Booth yet tragically misunderstood the intensity of his wrath; and Mary Surratt, the Confederate widow entrusted with the secrets of his vengeful plot. Fates and Traitors brings to life pivotal actors—some willing, others unwitting—who made an indelible mark on the history of our nation. Chiaverini portrays not just a soul in turmoil but a country at the precipice of immense change.
The Woman Who Loved John Wilkes Booth
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Author : Pamela Redford Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Woman Who Loved John Wilkes Booth written by Pamela Redford Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Washington (D.C.) categories.
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.
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.
America S Original Sin
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Author : John Rhodehamel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-09-07
America S Original Sin written by John Rhodehamel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with History categories.
The first book to explicitly name white supremacy as the motivation for Lincoln's assassination, America's Original Sin is an important and eloquent look at one of the most notorious episodes in American history.
Fortune S Fool
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Author : Terry Alford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
Fortune S Fool written by Terry Alford and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, his friends were stunned--not only by the murder but by the thought that someone they knew as fantastically gifted, successful and kind-hearted could commit such a crime. Fortune's Fool, the first biography of Booth ever written, is the life story of this talented and troubling individual.
Assassin
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Author : Anna Myers
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Assassin written by Anna Myers and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Bella isn't evil. But even people with good intentions can end up doing bad things. Especially when they meet people with the power to persuade them to do almost anything, like John Wilkes Booth-the most charismatic and famous actor of his time. So when Booth sets his sights on Bella, an assistant seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln, to help with his plot to kidnap President Lincoln, he is able to persuade her to betray her president and even turn her back on the boy she has loved her entire life. Bella believes Booth is only trying to force the North to release Southern war prisoners, and will not harm her dear friend Mr. Lincoln. But the kidnapping plot fails, and now Booth will stop at nothing--even if it means harming Bella in the process. Anna Myers has crafted a provocative new look at the Lincoln assassination through the eyes of both a young White House insider and the assassin himself. An author's note provides the historical background to this tragic event.
Bright Star Falling
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Author : Diane Levero
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2018-12-13
Bright Star Falling written by Diane Levero and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-13 with Fiction categories.
Americans have always been fascinated by the dramatic tale of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.But what is generally known about his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is sketchy at best and often simply not true.Booth is often portrayed by historians as a second-rate actor who assassinated Lincoln in a desperate attempt to gain fame, an extreme Southern fanatic who acted on his own. BRIGHT STAR FALLING, based on three years of exhaustive, eye-opening research, shows an entirely different Booth. It tells his story through the eyes of Kate Thompson, who becomes friends with him and his colorful family and eventually falls passionately in love with him - as did legions of ladies who knew the handsome, talented and charming young actor. Kate follows Booth through his highly successful acting career, his failed attempt to kidnap the President, and finally, the assassination, his desperate escape, and his death by gunfire at the Garrett farm in Virginia.Booth was impetuous, passionate and hot-tempered, as well as a very naughty rake with the ladies. But he was not the despicable fiend from hell portrayed by many historians. He was loved and respected by many, both men and women.Recent scholarly research gives compelling evidence that Booth's plan to capture Lincoln had the backing of the Confederate government - and that he killed the President only after a failed assassination attempt by other Confederate agents.BRIGHT STAR FALLING tells his story in a fictional format that is poignant, gripping, occasionally funny, more often heart-wrenching - and ultimately more truthful than most "historical" accounts of this tragic fallen star.
What Really Happened The Lincoln Assassination
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Author : Robert J. Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-04-07
What Really Happened The Lincoln Assassination written by Robert J. Hutchinson 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 2020-04-07 with History categories.
Think You Know Everything about the Lincoln Assassination? Think Again. After 150 years, many unsolved mysteries and enduring urban legends still surround the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the popular stage actor John Wilkes Booth. In a new look at the case, award-winning history author Robert J. Hutchinson (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible) explores what we know, and don’t know, about what really happened at Ford’s Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. In addition, he argues that the deep-seated political hatreds that roiled Washington, D.C., in the final weeks of the Civil War are particularly relevant to our own polarized age. Among the tantalizing questions Hutchinson explores are: * Did the Confederacy have a hand in the assassination plot? * Who were Booth’s secret accomplices, and why did he change the plan from kidnapping to assassination? * Why was it so easy for Booth to walk into the president’s box to shoot him? Where were the guards? * How did Booth evade the largest manhunt in U.S. history for nearly two weeks despite being unable to walk? * Who gave the order to shoot Booth in the Garrett barn—and what happened to his body? Drawing upon both primary sources and the best recent historical research, What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination separates established facts from mere conjectures—and is the one book to own if you want to know “what really happened.”