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Manhunt : the twelve day chase for Lincoln's killer / James L. Swanson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060518499 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780060518493
- ISBN: 0060518502
- ISBN: 9780060518509
- Physical Description: 448 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, 2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary, etc.: | Recounts the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and follows the intensive search for him from the streets of Washington, D.C., through the swamps of Maryland, into the forests of Virginia. The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, this book is a fully documented work, but it is also a tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal, an hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters.--From publisher description. |
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| Topic Heading: | Presented to Woodbury Public Library in memory of their grandmother Antoinette Perrier by her grandchildren Joe, Rita, Frank, Anthony, and Jim. Summer Reading 2006 rxb |
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