Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth

✍ Alford, Terry 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 483 KB

With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's unt

Life, Times and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

✍ George Alfred Townsend 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 eBooksLib 🌐 English ⚖ 86 KB

One year ago the writer of the letters which follow, visited the Battle Field of Waterloo. In looking over many relics of the combat preserved in the Museum there, he was particularly interested in the files of journals contemporary with the action. These contained the Duke of Wellington's first des

Dr. John Frederick May and the Identific

Dr. John Frederick May and the Identification of John Wilkes Booth's Body

✍ Allen D. Spiegel 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 455 KB

The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth

✍ Stacton, David 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 New York Review of Books 🌐 English ⚖ 245 KB

David Stacton’s The Judges of The Secret Court is a long-lost triumph of American fiction as well as one of the finest books ever written about the Civil War. Stacton’s gripping and atmospheric story revolves around the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, members of a famous theatrical family. Edw

The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel

The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel About John Wilkes Booth

📂 Standards 🏛 New York Review Books 🌐 English ⚖ 688 KB

David Stacton’s The Judges of The Secret Court is a long-lost triumph of American fiction as well as one of the finest books ever written about the Civil War. Stacton’s gripping and atmospheric story revolves around the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, members of a famous theatrical family. Edw

Lincoln's Assassin: The Unsolicited Confessions of J Wilkes Booth

✍ Pennington, J F 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 The New Press 🌐 English ⚖ 728 KB

**A riveting, fictionalized confessional of John Wilkes Booth that evokes a world of conspiracy, political duplicity, and theatricality.** In 1890, actor John Wilkes Booth--long presumed dead--emerged from twenty-five years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible fo