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Booth: A Novel - Hardcover

Robertson, David

 
9780385487061: Booth: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385487061 ISBN 13: 9780385487061
Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

An intriguing historical novel details the life of John Surratt, the only surving accessory to Lincoln's assassination, and how he became entangled with the enigmatic Booth, which ultimately led him to become involved in the deadly machinations of Booth and his co-conspirators. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

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istorical novel set amidst the confusion and chaos of the Civil War, Booth is the story of the only conspirator in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln who was not killed or executed--a young man who falls under the spell of the charismatic and captivating world-famous stage actor, and is gradually sucked into the vortex of Booth's insidious plans.

The novel opens in 1916, the last year of narrator John Surratt's life. Surratt, who has spent the years since Lincoln's death as an obscure shipping clerk, is approached by D.W. Griffith to read from his Civil War diary in Griffith's movie Birth of a Nation. As Surratt reads over his diary for the first time in fifty years, the reader returns to the tumultuous days of 1864, and a chance encounter between Surratt and John Wilkes Booth. Booth, a larger-than-life personality whose appetites, fame, and sheer force of will bedazzle everyone around him, helps to secure Surratt a position as the assi

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Verlag
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385487061
ISBN 13 
9780385487061
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
326
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