From Richard Lawrence to John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr.,
Americans have preferred their presidential assassins, whether
failed or successful, to be more or less crazy. Seemingly, this
absolves us of having to wonder where the American experiment might
have gone wrong.
John Wilkes Booth has been no exception to this rule. But was
he?
In a new, provocative study comprising three essays, historian
William L. Richter delves into the psyche of Booth and finds him
far from insane. Beginning with a modern, less adulating
interpretation of President Abraham Lincoln, Richter is the first
scholar to examine Booth's few known, often unfinished speeches and
essays to draw a realistic mind-picture of the man who intensely
believed in common American political theories of his day, and
acted violently to carry them out during the time of America's
greatest war.
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