Book recommendations

[L Verge]

I am going to shamelessly tout a three-volume set of books that we sell at Surratt House. Since the fall of 1976, the Surratt Society has published a monthly newsletter with each copy having more history than current news in it. In the 1990s, we decided to take the best of the assassination articles and combine them into our first volume, entitled In Pursuit Of...Continuing Research in the field of the Lincoln Assassination.

Since then, we have published two more volumes; and I have Lindsey Horn of this forum working on volume #4. Each volume has approximately 200 pages. The articles in these books come from of the great researchers in the Lincoln assassination field: Hall, Brennan, Tidwell, Gaddy, Loux, Kauffman, Miller, Hanchett, Richter, Stanton, Steers, Dodels, Head, Martin, Ownsbey, Houmes, Sloan, Chaconas, Alford, and many more. Newbies in the field are also now contributing to the newsletter, several of whom are members of this forum (Dave Taylor and Wes Harris among others). Other articles have come directly from primary sources in the James O. Hall Research Center at the museum. These materials came via donations to the Surratt Society and the museum with the understanding that they could be used to further the public's knowledge of our topic.

Unlike some others in the field, the Society and the museum respect copyright laws. The authors of these articles are recognized as the originators who gave permission to the Society and The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (the government agency which owns and operates the museum) to print their work.

That said, the three current volumes are available from Surratt House. Check our book store listings on http://www.surratt.org or call 301-868-1121 for further information. I can also be reached at laurie.verge@pgparks.com. I am not quoting prices here without Roger's permission -- don't want to be a complete huckster!