The book delves into Booth's background, motivations, and the events leading up to and following the assassination, providing a detailed and gripping account of this pivotal moment in American history.
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This book chronicles the events leading up to the assassination, and to the deaths of the killer John Wilkes Booth on April the 26th of that same year, and the subsequent hangings of the other conspirators on July the 7th.
This novel is recommended to readers who appreciate American historical fiction. Townsend offers not just a journey into the past, but also an examination of the societal and moral issues that are threaded throughout American history.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
Hardcover reprint of the original 1865 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.