Terry Alford

Fortune's Fool

The Life of John Wilkes Booth

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Produktbeschreibung

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, his friends were stunned--not only by the murder but by the thought that someone they knew as fantastically gifted, successful and kind-hearted could commit such a crime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9780195054125
• ISBN-10: 0195054121
• Artikelnr.: 41770239

Autorenporträt

Terry Alford is Professor of History at Northern Virginia Community College. He is the author of Prince Among Slaves (OUP), which was made into a PBS documentary in 2007. He is a founding board member of the Abraham Lincoln Institute of Washington, D.C., and a nationally recognized authority on John Wilkes Booth. He has appeared on "20/20," ABC News, the History Channel, the Discovery Network, and PBS. He has been an historical consultant on a number of films and documentaries, most recently Stephen Spielberg's "Lincoln."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 "Kiss My Bumbelbee"
Chapter 2 The Muffin
Chapter 3 Lions and Foxes
Chapter 4 The Union As It Was
Chapter 5 Shining in the Rough
Chapter 6 Life's Fitful Fever
Chapter 7 A Band of Brothers
Chapter 8 The Fiery Furnace
Chapter 9 Come Weal or Woe
Chapter 10 This One Mad Act
Chapter 11 Exit Booth
Chapter 12 The Last Ditch
Epilogue A Green and Narrow Bed
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index