Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution
- ISBN-10
- 0061237620
- ISBN-13
- 9780061237621
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-05-20
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Authors
- James L. Swanson, Daniel Weinberg
Description
This definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of John Wilkes Booth's coconspirators. Few remember them today, but once the names Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and Dr. Samuel Mudd were the most reviled and notorious in America. In Lincoln's Assassins, James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg present an unprecedented visual record of almost three hundred contemporary photographs, letters, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts, many hitherto unpublished. These rare materials evoke the popular culture of the time, record the origins of the Lincoln myth, take the reader into the courtroom and the cells of the accused, document the beginning of American photojournalism, and memorialize the fates of the eight conspirators.
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- 1990
- 622 pages
- Paperback
- McFarland
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