Lincolns Final Hours
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When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincolns 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, Americas future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersens Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Fords 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 her husbands bedside.In Lincolns Final Hours, author Kathryn Canavan takes a magnifying glass to the last moments of the presidents life and to the impact his assassination had on a country still reeling from a bloody civil war. With vivid, thoroughly researched prose and a reporters eye for detail, this fast-paced account not only furnishes a glimpse into John Wilkes Booths personal and political motivations but also illuminates the stories of ordinary people whose lives were changed forever by the assassination.While countless works on the Lincoln assassination exist, Lincolns Final Hours moves beyond the well-known traditional accounts, offering readers a front-row seat to the drama and horror of Lincolns death by putting them in the shoes of the audience in Fords Theatre that dreadful evening. Through her careful narration of the twists of fate that placed the president in harms way, of the plotting conversations Booth had with his accomplices, and of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, Canavan illustrates how the experiences of a single night changed the course of history.
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