President Lincoln Assassinated!! - A Library of America Special Publication (Hardcover)

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."

General

Imprint:	The Library of America
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	February 2015
Authors:	Harold Holzer
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-1-59853-373-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > Political assassinations Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-59853-373-8
Barcode:	9781598533736

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