Lincoln's assassination / Edwar Steers, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steers, Edward, Jr., 1937- author.

Series:

Concise Lincoln library.

Concise Lincoln Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booth's escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide several years later. In this succinct volume, Edward Steers, Jr. sets the record straight, expertly analyzing the historical evidence to explai

Contents:

18. Inter Arma Leges SilentEpilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Author Biography; Series Statement; Other Books in the Concise Lincoln Library; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-3965-X

0-8093-3350-3

OCLC:

890530945