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

Author

Bill O'Reilly

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.