Fates and Traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth /
Edition statement:Large print edition. Published by : Thorndike Press, (Waterville, Maine : ) Physical details: 683 pages : map ; 23 cm. ISBN:9781410492210.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Large Print | W. Ross Macdonald School Library Large Print | Fiction | F CHI (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Copy: 1 | Available | 2024-0066 |
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.
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