This book does a great job of explaining the events that led up to JFK's assassination, the event itself, & the aftermath for the younger reader. There was no language that was over a younger reader's head. The topic was well researched and explained in easy to understand terms. It is definitely ...
This book solidly succeeds in the genre of works that promise to be of compelling reading to the non-history-minded reader while being based on solid historical research. James L. Swanson, a historian and attorney in Washington D.C., shows his knowledge of everything Abraham Lincoln. He provide...
NO ONE EXPECTED BOOTH TO STOP RUNNING. SOON THE manhunters would track Booth to the Surrattsville tavern, and then to Doctor Mudd’s. But then the trail went cold. The assassin seemed to simply vanish. Back in Washington, the mood at the War Department turned foul. Had he done it? Had Lincoln’s mu...
But he did not gloat. “Thank God that I have lived to see this! It seems to me that I have been dreaming a horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone. I want to go to Richmond.”Admiral Porter agreed to take him there on the River Queen, “if there is any of [Richmond] left. There i...
Her journey had been miserable. “The baggage cars were all needing repairs and leaked badly. Our bedding was wet through by the constant rains that poured down.” Varina, her children, and her small group of traveling companions settled into a rented house in Charlotte. Jefferson Davis stayed in D...