America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination

by John Rhodehamel

Book Overview

Finally, a compelling narrative history of the Lincoln assassination that refuses to ignore John Wilkes Booth's motivation: his growing, obsessive commitment to white supremacy.

On April 14, 1865, after nearly a year of conspiring, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a production of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. Lincoln died the next morning. Twelve days later, Booth himself was fatally shot...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421441616
• ISBN13: 9781421441610
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"