TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chiaverini,Jennifer
TI  - Fates and Traitors: a novel of John Wilkes Booth 
SN  - 9781410492210
U1  - F CHI 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Waterville, Maine : 
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Booth, John Wilkes,
KW  - Conspiracies
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Assassins
KW  - Large type books
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era
N2  - John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America--has been the subject of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Though in his plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln Booth did not act alone--he is often portrayed as a shadowy figure, devoid of human connection. Yet four women were integral in the life of this unquiet American: Mary Ann, the mother he revered above all but country; his sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the secrets of his vengeful wrath
ER  -