A01=John Wilkes Booth
Author_John Wilkes Booth
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252069673
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2000
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination.
John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, is the author of The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic and other books. Louise Taper, a noted Lincoln collector, owns the largest collection extant of John Wilkes Booth letters.
