ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1955
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Philip Van Doren Stern - The Man Who Killed Lincoln
Dell, 1955
319 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Excerpt from The Man Who Killed Lincoln: The Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Part in the Assassination

He hated the smug Yankees around him. He was Sick Of their incessant cheering, irritated by their enthusiasm. He was smiling contemptuously as he watched the parade, but his face twitched nervously in the red glare of the torches. He had gathered his long cloak around him in his favorite theatrical pose, for even in his misery he was still the actor.

Yet his unhappiness was real enough. His mind was numbed with fatigue and disaster. For two days he had been unable to sleep at all. Minute guns had been fired in an endless salvo Of victory, and their thunder had beaten like hammer blows against his brain until he had found himself Counting Off the seconds in order to anticipate each explosion. And through all the confusion of sounds and images came the realization that his beloved South was being crushed in defeat. That thought was with him al ways, and there was no escaping it.

The publishers classify this as non-fiction. Actually, the story of John Wilkes Booth`s crime is told in the form of a novel. Step by step, beginning with his initial plan for abducting Lincoln, his mad hatred of the man, his sudden shift to thoughts of murdering not only the President, but Seward, Johnson, Grant. The ramifications of the plot, with only his own part coming through to success, followed by his flight, the firing of the Garrett barn, the suicide and the story concocted by the soldiers. An interesting analysis of the processes of Booth`s mind, the background and motivation, the details of the killing, and the rounding out of the story. Controversial material -- presumably the finished book will give sources and authorities.


Nonfiction, History