E. Lawrence Abel

John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When John Wilkes Booth died-shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln-all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781621576198
• Artikelnr.: 52815764

Autorenporträt

E. Lawrence Abel is a distinguished faculty professor and an emeritus professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A member of the Michigan Civil War Round Table, the Surratt Society, and the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, he is also the author of more than forty scholarly and trade books and more than two hundred peer-reviewed articles and trade magazine articles. Abel has appeared on many radio and television shows, including The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder and To Tell the Truth. In April 2015, he spoke at the U.S. National Archives on the Lincoln assassination.