The Turners' Work on Mrs. Lincoln

[Laurie Verge]

Moving on to another book -- Terry Alford's long-awaited Fortune's Fool, what I believe will be the best Booth biography to date, is due out this fall. If you are in the Washington, D.C. area on Tuesday, March 5, Terry will be giving a talk from 6-8 pm on "Lincoln and Booth: One Mad Act and Its Expiation" at the Morrison House in Alexandria, Virginia. He's already on the "Must Have" list for the Surratt conference in 2014.

Terry maintains a low profile, but those of us who know him know that he was honored several years ago by the State of Virginia as the recipient of the State Council on Higher Education's Outstanding Faculty of Virginia Award. He also served as a consultant to Spielberg's Lincoln and has appeared on 20/20, ABC News, the History Channel, the Discovery Network, and PBS.