President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning by Holzer, Harold

President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598533736)

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President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning by Holzer, Harold

President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning

$29.95
President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning by Holzer, Harold

President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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Experience the drama of Abraham Lincoln's assassination through this curated selection of eyewitness reports, medical records, and more--for fans of Killing Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic immediacy of Lincoln's assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation's mourning for the martyred president. The fateful story is told in more than eighty original documents--eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries, and poems--by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him.

Courtroom testimony exposes the intricacies of the plot to kill the president; eulogies by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and Benjamin Disraeli and poetry by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Julia Ward Howe give eloquent voice to grief; two emotional speeches by Frederick Douglass--one of them never before published--reveal his evolving perspective on Lincoln's legacy. Together these voices combine to reveal the full panorama of one the most shocking and tragic events in our history.

Author: Harold Holzer
ISBN-10: 1598533738
ISBN-13: 9781598533736
Publisher: Library of America
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2015
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By Harold Holzer
By Harold Holzer
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HAROLD HOLZER, one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, has authored, coauthored, and edited more than forty books, including The Civil War in 150 Objects, Lincoln at Cooper Union, and The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, volume number 192 in the Library of America series. His awards include the Lincoln Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City, where he is Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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