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Book

Lincoln's last days : the shocking assassination that changed America forever

Call Number

  • J 973.7 OREI (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

Physical Description

xix, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Summary

Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.

Contents

  • The beginning of the end of the war
  • The conspiracy to assassinate
  • Lincoln's last day
  • Chasing the assassins
  • Afterward
  • Epilogue
  • Excerpt from Harper's weekly, April 29, 1865
  • Finding Lincoln in today's Washington, D.C
  • Visual glossary
  • Abraham Lincoln timeline
  • John Wilkes Booth timeline
  • Recommended reading
  • Recommended websites.

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