President Lincoln Assassinated!!: A Library of America Special Publication

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For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented first hand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. The fateful story is told in more than 80 original documents, eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries and poems, by more than 75 participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him.

HAROLD HOLZER is one of the country's leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, has authored, coauthored, and edited more than forty books, including The Civil War in 150 Objects, Lincoln at Cooper Union, and The Lincoln Anthology- Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now, volume number 192 in the Library of America series. His awards include the Lincoln Prize and the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City, where he is Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"With the deft mastery we have come to expect from him, Harold Holzer compiles a vivid, riveting, and at times profoundly moving narrative of the immediate reaction to perhaps the greatest cataclysm in American history, and of the sudden and unexpected need to come to terms with the death of the complicated man at the center of it, Abraham Lincoln." - Ken Burns, filmmaker "As it moves between Washington and the American heartland, from the crime itself to all the mourning and retribution it engendered, this gathering of essential documents and eye-popping curiosities recreates Lincoln's murder with an extraordinary you-are-there vividness. I cannot think of another anthology-on any subject-that has been assembled with such narrative power and urgency." - Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara "The national tragedy that brought the Civil War to its appalling climax takes on new life and meaning in this remarkable compilation." - Stephen W. Sears, author of Landscape Turned Red A Noteworthy Book for 2015 A History Book Club Selection