Lincoln's Final Hours : Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President / Kathryn Canavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canavan, Kathryn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon -- fresh out of medical school -- struggled to keep the president alive while Mary Todd Lincoln moaned at

Contents:

The secret about Booth

Washington City then

The great illumination

The making of an assassin

Plans and dreams

Nothing exactly according to plan

Shuffling history

The turning of the tide

Looking forward to a memorable evening

Booth's end game

'Tis the wink of an eye

Thunderstruck

Their precious burden

Enough evidence to hang Booth

Waiting for history

That's the last of him

Caught in the American nightmare

Grief and greed

The most elaborate funeral in us history

The manhunt closes in

Unrivaled honors and an unexpected invoice

Paltry meanness

History forgot Tenth Street

Lincoln would not be the last to die at Ford's

A place to make him comfortable

Epilogue: what's past is prologue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813166100

0813166101

OCLC:

919432914