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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Faileddi Brad Meltzer
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. If you think this is about John Wilkes Booth...think again. It's about the plot to kill Lincoln before he was inaugurated. It is a fine work by the authors--readable, factual and a good, easy popular read. The authors show a definite prejudice for slavery and the causes of the Civil War. In the "Afterward", authors liken it to 2020--reader cannot help but draw the political parallels to our election in 2020. I don't believe that the author stated that the plotters were ever brought to justice; rather, they existed and acted in the Civil War and later without consequence. ( ) Meltzer and Mensch have put together a detailed account of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination attempt, but it isn’t the one we know about. It’s an attempt that was thwarted largely by the founder of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, Allan Pinkerton in 1861 before Lincoln had been sworn in as our sixteenth president. The book’s style is conversational and accessible, and, in parts, hard to put down. It will appeal to readers who aren’t necessarily drawn to history. It’s a great story, with or without its historical significance. And lastly, “The Lincoln Conspiracy” does a great job of filling in some of the blanks left in history’s portrayal of the great sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. We see Lincoln as a sensitive human being and not necessarily just as the awkward, self-taught small town lawyer from Illinois we’ve come to know in our school history books. I appreciated this part of the book as much as the mystery. I enjoyed this book a lot and think most readers will. My mom is a huge Lincoln fan and gave me this new book to read. It also has a connection to my hometown of Dundee, IL in that one of the main focuses is Allan Pinkerton, credited with being one of the first private detectives in America. Basically, the plot revolves around a conspiracy hatched in pro-slavery Baltimore to assassinate the newly-elected Lincoln on his way to his Inauguration. This is what i would describe as "history lite". It reads fast and is engaging, has some research behind it but isn't going to be anything new to most history buffs. Annoyingly, large chunks are written in the present tense, i.e. "A man in his late forties sits at a desk in western New York". Ugh. I also spent way too much time trying to figure out how and and why these two men wrote this book together. It seems that they are both authors in their own right, so why collaborate? And apparently this is their second book together. They don't reveal their process in the afterward. Did they trade off chapters? Did one mainly research? Is it a ghost writer situation? I wish I knew. That seemed a more interesting mystery than the actual conspiracy theory . . . Original publication date: 2020 Author’s nationality: American Original language: English Length: 368 pages Rating: 2.5 stars Format/where I acquired the book: borrowed from mom Why I read this: mom told me too :-) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The conspirators were part of a pro-Southern secret society that didn't want an antislavery President in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the brand new President in Baltimore as Lincoln's inauguration train passed through en route to the Capitol. The plot was investigated by famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents, including one of the first female private detectives in America. Had the assassination succeeded, there would have been no Lincoln Presidency, and the course of the Civil War and American history would have forever been altered"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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