Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution

James L. Swanson / Daniel R. Weinberg

ISBN 10: 1892041421 / ISBN 13: 9781892041425

Edité par Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM, 2001

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1st. Edition, 1st. and only Arena Editions Printing 2001, Hardcover with the dust jacket, 152 page book. This copy is signed by Daniel R. Weinberg on the first title page with the inscription " SIC SEMPER SICARIIS" ( Thus Always to Assassins ). Illustrated with black & white and toned illustration , of the people involved the assassin of Abraham Lincoln and the people in the trial and the execution of the band of traders. Condition : NEW . Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution
• Éditeur: Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1892041421
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781892041425
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Various Illustrators
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Type de livre: Book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • U.S. History / Military History / History / Wor...
  • Signed Editions
  • Photography / Art / Monograph / Documentary

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Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Acclaimed as the definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Lincoln's Assassins, by James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg, follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of Booth's co-conspirators. For twelve days after the president was shot, the nation waited breathlessly as manhunters tracked down John Wilkes Booth—the story that was brilliantly told in Swanson's New York Times bestseller, Manhunt. Then, during the spring and summer of 1865, a military commission tried eight people as conspirators in Booth's plot to murder Lincoln and other high officials, including the secretary of state and vice president. Few remember them today, but once the names Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and Dr. Samuel Mudd were the most reviled and notorious in America.

In Lincoln's Assassins, Swanson and Weinberg resurrect these events by presenting an unprecedented visual record of almost 300 contemporary photographs, letters, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts, many hitherto unpublished. These rare materials, which took the authors decades to collect, evoke the popular culture of the time, record the origins of the Lincoln myth, take the reader into the courtroom and the cells of the accused, document the beginning of American photojournalism, and memorialize the fates of the eight conspirators.

Lincoln's Assassins is a unique work that will appeal to anyone interested in American history, Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, law, crime, assassination, nineteenth-century photographic portraiture, and the history of American photojournalism.