Lincoln's Final Hours (eBook)

Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President

Kathryn Canavan (Autor)

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2015
248 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6610-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon-fresh out of medical school-struggled to keep the president alive while Mary Todd Lincoln moaned at her husband's bedside.In Lincoln's Final Hours, author Kathryn Canavan takes a magnifying glass to the last moments of the president's life and to the impact his assassination had on a country still reeling from a bloody civil war. With vivid, thoroughly researched prose and a reporter's eye for detail, this fast-paced account not only furnishes a glimpse into John Wilkes Booth's personal and political motivations but also illuminates the stories of ordinary people whose lives were changed forever by the assassination.While countless works on the Lincoln assassination exist, Lincoln's Final Hours moves beyond the well-known traditional accounts, offering readers a front-row seat to the drama and horror of Lincoln's death by putting them in the shoes of the audience in Ford's Theatre that dreadful evening. Through her careful narration of the twists of fate that placed the president in harm's way, of the plotting conversations Booth had with his accomplices, and of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, Canavan illustrates how the experiences of a single night changed the course of history.

Autor

Kathryn Canavan is a former independent researcher and freelance writer for USA Today and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Inhalt

Preface
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
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.10.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 48 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1865 • 19th century • Abraham • allies • American • American politicians • Assassins • Biographies • Booth • British • cabinet • Civil War • Confederacy • confederate states of America • Crime • Death • diplomatic • diplomats • Expansion • Extremism • eyewitness account • first-hand accounts • ford's • Ford’s • foreign policy • French • History • international • Intervention • John • killing • Mary • Murder • Night • Northern • Plot • Policies • Political • Politics • post-Civil War • President • presidential • Presidential Assassination • Primary Sources • reconstruction era • rivals • secretary of state • shot • southern • Team • Theater • Theatre • todd • Union • us confederacy • US presidents • Wilkes • witnesses
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6610-1 / 0813166101
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6610-0 / 9780813166100