{"product_id":"president-lincoln-assassinated-harold-holzer-9781598533736","title":"President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning","description":"\u003cb\u003eExperience the drama of Abraham Lincoln's assassination through this curated selection of eyewitness reports, medical records, and more--for fans of \u003ci\u003eKilling Lincoln\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. \u003ci\u003ePresident Lincoln Assassinated!!\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCourtroom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Holzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598533738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598533736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Harold Holzer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640644555007,"sku":"9781598533736","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_43b1f9ba-a491-4b11-86ed-9a4ec962356c.jpg?v=1740670163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/president-lincoln-assassinated-harold-holzer-9781598533736","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}