Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813166087)

When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon-fresh

Author: Kathryn Canavan
ISBN-10: 081316608X
ISBN-13: 9780813166087
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2015
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.19w x 0.58d