Lincoln's final hours : conspiracy, terror, and the assassination of America's greatest president /

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When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Canavan, Kathryn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Assassination.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Assassination
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The secret about Booth
  • Washington City then
  • The great illumination
  • The making of an assassin
  • Plans and dreams
  • Nothing exactly according to plan
  • Shuffling history
  • The turning of the tide
  • Looking forward to a memorable evening
  • Booth's end game
  • 'Tis the wink of an eye
  • Thunderstruck
  • Their precious burden
  • Enough evidence to hang Booth
  • Waiting for history
  • That's the last of him
  • Caught in the American nightmare
  • Grief and greed
  • The most elaborate funeral in us history
  • The manhunt closes in
  • Unrivaled honors and an unexpected invoice
  • Paltry meanness
  • History forgot Tenth Street
  • Lincoln would not be the last to die at Ford's
  • A place to make him comfortable
  • Epilogue: what's past is prologue.

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