Nov 12, 2009

The Day Lincoln Was Shot | The Day Lincoln Was Shot

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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The Day Lincoln Was Shot | The Day Lincoln Was Shot

At a glance:

Form and Content

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