Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth

By John Wilkes Booth

Book Overview

Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252069676
• ISBN13: 9780252069673
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"