The Day Lincoln Was Shot (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jim Bishop
- First Published: 1955
- Time of Work: 7:00 on April 14, 1865, to 7:22 on April 15, 1865
- Setting: Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Edwin McMasters Stanton, William H. Seward, Ulysses S. Grant, John Wilkes Booth
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Civil War, Death or dying, Assassination, Presidents, Biography
- Locales: Washington, D.C.
Form and Content
The Day Lincoln Was Shot covers a brief, but very critical, period—only twenty-four hours and twenty-two minutes—in American history. Jim Bishop calls his work “a book about a day, a place and a murder—and about a wide variety of men and women.” In his introduction, he explains how the book resulted from more than twenty years of intensive research and the assemblage of a monumental amount of evidence.
The book provides a detailed reconstruction of what Lincoln and members of his official family, as well as John Wilkes Booth and his...
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