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The Greatest Manhunt in American History
For 12 days after his brazen assassination of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was at large, and in Manhunt, historian James L. Swanson tells the vivid, fully documented tale of his escape and the wild, massive pursuit. Get a taste of the daily drama from this timeline of the desperate search.
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One of the more kinetic renderings of the Lincoln assassination, Swanson's synthesis of the sources is bound to be a cover-to-cover reading hit with history lovers. The author strategically confines his chronology to the hours surrounding the crime and the ensuing pursuit of the perpetrators, contrasting with Michael W. Kauffman's American Brutus (2004), a biography containing every iota on Booth. Swanson has Booth and his confederates disperse from their final conspiratorial meeting, gulping a last whiskey and proceeding to their dastardly deeds--except for George Atzerodt, who ran from his assignment to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson. After the scenes of Booth's assault, theatrically calculated to ensure his notoriety whether he eluded capture or not, Swanson relates how he and accomplice David Herold bluffed their way out of Washington and linked up with rebel sympathizers. Artfully arranging Booth's flight with the frantic federal dragnet that sought him, Swanson so tensely dramatizes the chase, capture, and killing of Booth that serious shelf-life (plus a movie version starring Harrison Ford) awaits his account of the assassination. Gilbert Taylor
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On Good Friday, April 12th , 1865 , US president Abraham Lincoln
was assassinated and died early next morning. The nation was shocked and
furious, and a manhunt like never before started to catch the ruthless
murderer. This book is a tight-written account of the twelve days until
in a fatal shoothout the assassin J.W.Booth was killed.
(Would Jack Bauer only have needed 24 hours to solve that case ?)
Lincoln had been jubilant, because the War between the States seemed to
finally have ended, but then this tragedy (written about now in hundreds
of books) had struck. And it, unfortunately, was not the last murder of
a political figure in America.
I have enjoyed the book very much and then added it
to my Dealey Plaza shelf.
was assassinated and died early next morning. The nation was shocked and
furious, and a manhunt like never before started to catch the ruthless
murderer. This book is a tight-written account of the twelve days until
in a fatal shoothout the assassin J.W.Booth was killed.
(Would Jack Bauer only have needed 24 hours to solve that case ?)
Lincoln had been jubilant, because the War between the States seemed to
finally have ended, but then this tragedy (written about now in hundreds
of books) had struck. And it, unfortunately, was not the last murder of
a political figure in America.
I have enjoyed the book very much and then added it
to my Dealey Plaza shelf.
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Manhunt: An Exciting Account of Booth's Murder of Lincoln
25. Februar 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
The most notoriously infamous murder in American history occurred on Good Friday April 14, 1865. President Lincoln was
shot with a derringer by John Wilkes Booth (1838-April 26, 1865) in a murder most foul!Booth came from the most renowned acting family America. He was a superb actor, rake and handsome man who favored Southern Independence, hated the blacks and viewed Lincoln as a tyrant. Booth killed Lincoln after several earlier kidnap schemes went awry.
As an avid Civil War buff and student of the Lincoln assassination this is one of the two best books on the murder of the railspliter. The other great book on this topic is Edward Steers.Jr's classic "Blood On the Moon."
This book is not as dry as Steers book and could serve as the basis of a motion picture or better yet mini-series on the horrific event.
In great detail Swann tells us what really happened on the 12 day flight by Booth and his fellow conspirator David Herold on their flight to the Garrett family barn near Port Royal, Va. where Booth was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett and
Herold was captured. (Herold along with George Atzerdot; Mary
Surratt and Lewis Powell would die on the scaffold on July 7, 1865.
Powell had sought to kill Secretary of State Seward in his bed where he was recovering from a painful carriage accident. He failed. George Atzerodt failed to even try to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson living in the Kirkwood Hotel.
If you want to excite a young person in American history this is a wonderful place to begin. Swann can write well and simply about complex events regarding the assassination. Finishing this book I have a new respect for Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who led the manhunt for the killers.
The book has many period illustrations, letters from the participants in the ghoulish search and a final chapter alerting us to the fate of the chief characters in this American Tragedy.
I stayed up until 1 AM last night reading this excellent and
exciting book. Very well recommended!
shot with a derringer by John Wilkes Booth (1838-April 26, 1865) in a murder most foul!Booth came from the most renowned acting family America. He was a superb actor, rake and handsome man who favored Southern Independence, hated the blacks and viewed Lincoln as a tyrant. Booth killed Lincoln after several earlier kidnap schemes went awry.
As an avid Civil War buff and student of the Lincoln assassination this is one of the two best books on the murder of the railspliter. The other great book on this topic is Edward Steers.Jr's classic "Blood On the Moon."
This book is not as dry as Steers book and could serve as the basis of a motion picture or better yet mini-series on the horrific event.
In great detail Swann tells us what really happened on the 12 day flight by Booth and his fellow conspirator David Herold on their flight to the Garrett family barn near Port Royal, Va. where Booth was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett and
Herold was captured. (Herold along with George Atzerdot; Mary
Surratt and Lewis Powell would die on the scaffold on July 7, 1865.
Powell had sought to kill Secretary of State Seward in his bed where he was recovering from a painful carriage accident. He failed. George Atzerodt failed to even try to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson living in the Kirkwood Hotel.
If you want to excite a young person in American history this is a wonderful place to begin. Swann can write well and simply about complex events regarding the assassination. Finishing this book I have a new respect for Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who led the manhunt for the killers.
The book has many period illustrations, letters from the participants in the ghoulish search and a final chapter alerting us to the fate of the chief characters in this American Tragedy.
I stayed up until 1 AM last night reading this excellent and
exciting book. Very well recommended!
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Compelling treatment, with some new information...
24. Februar 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I've read several accounts of the death of Lincoln and its aftermath over the past 50 years, but not any of the recent publications, until picking this off the library shelf last week. I enjoyed it immensely. The flaws mentioned by prior reviewers are probably justified, but if, like me, the weakest part of your Lincoln lore was the escape and capture of Booth, this is a sufficient remedy for that gap. It is detailed enough, with interesting notes, yet it does read like a novel. One comes to feel sorry for Booth's suffering on his 12-day run, while not excusing his foolish crime, which did the South more harm than good. More photos would have been nice, including some modern views of the Maryland/Virginia locations. I've been to Ford's Theater and the Peterson House, and Swanson's treatment of those locales is nicely done. Although billed as the story of the manhunt, Lincoln does not die until page 139 of a nearly 400-page text, so the actual killing, and the simultaneous attack on Secretary of State Seward, are depicted in more-than-adequate detail.
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Bucky Sappenfield - Terlingua, TX
13. Februar 2006
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I have been reading about the Lincoln assassination for over 45 years and this is the best book to date. It is riviting, filled with heretofore unrevealed details and updates. A wonderful read! Mr Swanson has done a lot of research and has woven a thrilling story...yet it is all true! He could not make these things up! Great book. Thanks
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