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An account of the events leading to the assassination of Lincoln as well as the arrest, trial and punishment of the accused.Tags
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A mediocre history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination by an author too willing to blur the line between fact and legend.
The pictures and illustrations are the best part, though they aren't particularly revelatory. I also find it of questionable taste to show before and after photographs of an actual execution in a juvenile history.
This is one of those odd books in our home library that has been hanging around unread since my wife or my 1970s childhood.
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Contents: Prologue. Appomattox -- Chapter 1. Dream Remembered -- Chapter 2. Last Day -- Chapter 3. Preparation for Murder -- Chapter 4. The Killer Strikes -- Chapter 5. Vigil over a Dying Hero -- Chapter 6. Home Forever -- Chapter 7. Flight into Darkness -- Chapter 8. Death show more for the Slayer -- Chapter 9. The Slate Wiped Clean -- Epilogue. The Lincoln Legend show less
The pictures and illustrations are the best part, though they aren't particularly revelatory. I also find it of questionable taste to show before and after photographs of an actual execution in a juvenile history.
This is one of those odd books in our home library that has been hanging around unread since my wife or my 1970s childhood.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents: Prologue. Appomattox -- Chapter 1. Dream Remembered -- Chapter 2. Last Day -- Chapter 3. Preparation for Murder -- Chapter 4. The Killer Strikes -- Chapter 5. Vigil over a Dying Hero -- Chapter 6. Home Forever -- Chapter 7. Flight into Darkness -- Chapter 8. Death show more for the Slayer -- Chapter 9. The Slate Wiped Clean -- Epilogue. The Lincoln Legend show less
Alternate title: O Captain! The Death of Abraham Lincoln. This is a vintage Scholastic edition, copyright 1968. Includes numerous historic photos, drawings, paintings on most pages. Even including slick contemporary books on Lincoln for children, I've never seen a better book on the death of Lincoln. Not a life biography of the president. Events begin with the Civil War. Highly recommend.
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Vintage Scholastic (TX1072)
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- Canonical title
- The Death of Lincoln: A Picture History of the Assassination
- Original title
- O Captain! The Death of Abraham Lincoln
- Original publication date
- 1968
- People/Characters
- Abraham Lincoln; Mary Todd Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; Ulysses S. Grant; William Henry Seward; Edwin M. Stanton (show all 30); Tad Lincoln; Robert Lincoln; William H. Crook; Henry Reed Rathbone; John F. Parker; John Wilkes Booth; Michael O'Laughlen; George A. Atzerodt; Mary Surratt; Samuel Arnold; Lewis Paine; Edman Spangler; John Surratt; David Herold; Joseph Burroughs; Charles Augustus Leale; Laura Keene; Charles Sabin Taft; Andrew Johnson; Samuel A. Mudd; William Jett; Richard Garrett; Boston Corbett; Edward P. Doherty
- Important places
- Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA; Washington, D.C., USA; Appomattox Court House, Virginia, USA
- Important events
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Epigraph
- O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vess... (show all)el grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
- Walt Whitman - Dedication
- For Fran and Ed, who helped me write this book
- First words
- The day was Palm Sunday, April 9, 1865. [Prologue: Appomattox]
On that Palm Sunday, President Lincoln and his wife were aboard the River Queen, steaming back to Washington from Virginia. [Chapter 1] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was over. Justice had been served. [Chapter 9. The Slate Wiped Clean ]
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The account in this book – completely factual, true to recorded history – is nevertheless part of that legend. [Epilogue: The Lincoln Legend] - Original language
- English
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- Genre
- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 364.1524 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Assassination
- LCC
- E457.5 .H33 — History of the United States United States Civil War period, 1861-1865 Lincoln's administrations, 1861-April 15, 1865
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- 414
- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.89)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 10
