Booth's Words

[Eva Elisabeth]

I can't help it, I tend to feel like Gene - kidnapping IMO doesn't suit JWB's personality which was that of a tragician star actor rather than that of a team player. From all I read about him I don't feel he was someone to bare great altruistic risks without appropriate personal price-performance ratio. The risks in kidnapping would have been unproportionally high related to his estimable share of fame.

His writings themselves sound like drama, and he lied at other times, e.g. about the breaking of his leg (either in telling or writing, but at one point in any case) without necessity other than "polish".

(No question - I indeed do believe his intentions to do something for the South were very serious, but for himself likewise.)