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The Lincoln Assassination - Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book (Paperback)
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The Lincoln Assassination - Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book (Paperback)
Series: The North's Civil War
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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the
most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract
enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair
historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to
wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year,
and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading
scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest
studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the
extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been
previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln's murder and
deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date
accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865-the
relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the
conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious
sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nation's
cities, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals,
as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the
conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and
insightful analysis. The contributors are among the finest scholars
who are studying Lincoln's assassination. All have earned
well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their
thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to
the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers
Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan,
Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.
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