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Sto caricando le informazioni... President Lincoln Assassinated!!: the Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Tr: A Library of America Special Publicationdi Harold Holzer
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A special publication from LOA on the Lincoln assassination & the aftermath. The editor did a splendid job of using letters, newspaper accounts, diary entries, poems & speeches in memorial of Lincoln. From the moment of the assassination, the accounts of the hunt & final end of Booth, the trial & execution of the 4 conspirators, to the funeral procession to Springfield Illinois to Lincoln's final resting place, the reader is given scenes of horror, of the chaos surrounding Seward's near death at the hands of an assassin until the trial & execution. In this account, a nearly complete account of the period surrounding Lincoln's death is amazingly put together. In some cases, there are the diary entries of Confederate women whose eye opening statements left no doubt the level of animosity that remained in spite of the end of the war. Francis Carpenter's account is unusually accurate. The unusual statement made by the editor's on F. Douglass' 2nd speech made 15 years after Lincoln's death was quite inappropriate since the speech has to be read as a whole. Although Douglass regarded Lincoln less than he did earlier, he did not dwell on that statement. After reading the 2nd Douglass speech, the editor's statement should have been left unsaid, hence the 4 star ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic and terrifying immediacy of Lincoln's murder and the coordinated attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, the hunt for the conspirators, their military trial, and the unprecedented national mourning for our first martyred president. The story is told through more than eighty original documents ... [and] by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth, Everton Conger, the detective who tracked him down, and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)973.7History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil WarClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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