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The Assassin's Accomplice, movie tie-in - Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Paperback, Media tie-in)
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The Assassin's Accomplice, movie tie-in - Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (Paperback, Media tie-in)
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In "The Assassin's Accomplice," historian Kate Clifford Larson
tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known
participant in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first
woman ever to be executed by the federal government of the United
States. Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boarding house
in Washington where the conspirators-including her rebel son, John
Surratt-met to plan the assassination. When a military tribunal
convicted her for her crimes and sentenced her to death, five of
the nine commissioners petitioned President Andrew Johnson to show
mercy on Surratt because of her sex and age. Unmoved, Johnson
refused-Surratt, he said, "kept the nest that hatched the egg." Set
against the backdrop of the Civil War, "The Assassin's Accomplice"
tells the intricate story of the Lincoln conspiracy through the
eyes of its only female participant. Based on long-lost interviews,
confessions, and court testimony, the text explores how Mary's
actions defied nineteenth-century norms of femininity, piety, and
motherhood, leaving her vulnerable to deadly punishment
historically reserved for men. A riveting narrative account of sex,
espionage, and murder cloaked in the enchantments of Southern
womanhood, "The Assassin's Accomplice" offers a fresh perspective
on America's most famous murder.
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