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Fortune's Fool - The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Hardcover)
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Fortune's Fool - The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Hardcover)
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With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his
hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of
April 14, 1865, just as he hoped. But his murder of President
Abraham Lincoln - one of the most familiar events in American
history - brought Booth infamy, not the acclaim he sought. Booth
was remarkably different from other presidential assassins. Admired
as an actor well before the tragedy at Ford's Theatre, the handsome
and likeable twenty six year old was billed as "the youngest star
in the world." Lincoln was among the thousands who applauded his
performances. Wealth, fame, and popularity came to Booth, but they
meant little compared to the turbulent actor's passion to help the
South win its independence. When the war went badly for the
Confederacy, he abandoned acting and plotted to abduct Lincoln and
take him south as a prisoner. Booth stalked Lincoln relentlessly
during the last winter of the war, only to fail time and again to
capture him. As the Confederacy collapsed in April, 1865, Booth
decided that the only way he could revive the South and punish the
North for the war would be to murder Lincoln - whatever the cost to
himself or others. How could someone so gifted and admired-someone
with so much to lose-commit a crime that stunned and infuriated the
nation? The first biography of Booth ever written, Fortune's Fool
answers that question. Its cradle-to-grave portrait of one of
America's most remarkable personalities sets it apart from other
books on the Lincoln assassination. The result of a quarter-century
of research into government archives, historical libraries, and
family records, it brings to life the exceptionally talented and
troubling individual who committed the most consequential murder in
American history.
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