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Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth

✍ Scribed by Chiaverini, Jennifer

Book ID
108794667
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ASIN
B013D662F4

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✦ Synopsis

**"Fates and Traitors is a novel about mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, the line between patriot and traitor, and the lengths we go to for love. A fascinating look at a slice of our country's history, an incisive portrait of obsession, and overall impossible to put down." --Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of At the Water's Edge and Water for Elephants
** The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence.

John Wilkes Booth, the mercurial son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, committed one of the most notorious acts in American history--the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

The subject of more than a century of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession, Booth is often portrayed as a...

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