New book by Harold Holzer

[LincolnMan]

Scheduled for release Feb. 24, 2015:

President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning: (A Special Publication of The Library of America).


Sounds right up our alley follow Forum members!

[RJNorton]

(12-31-2014 08:28 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Scheduled for release Feb. 24, 2015:

President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning: (A Special Publication of The Library of America).


Sounds right up our alley follow Forum members!

Bill, the man is indeed prolific!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thanks, Bill! Sounds promising!

[Gencor]

This sounds promising. I can't wait to read it.

[LincolnToddFan]

Oh, I love these types of books! Thanks for the heads up!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Laurie, will this be available for purchase at the conference? (Also I'd like to buy the Kate Chase bio - will there be any chance?)

The description on Amazon reads:
"For the 150th anniversary, Harold Holzer (The Civil War in 150 Objects) presents an unprecedented firsthand chronicle of one of the most pivotal moments in American history. On April 14, 1865, Good Friday, the Civil War claimed its ultimate sacrifice. President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic immediacy of Lincoln’s assassination, the hunt for the conspirators and their military trial, and the nation’s mourning for the martyred president. The fateful story is told in more than eighty original documents—eyewitness reports, medical records, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, speeches, letters, diary entries, and poems—by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him. Courtroom testimony exposes the intricacies of the plot to kill the president; eulogies by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and Benjamin Disraeli and poetry by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville and Julia Ward Howe give eloquent voice to grief; two emotional speeches by Frederick Douglass—one of them never before published—reveal his evolving perspective on Lincoln’s legacy. Together these voices combine to reveal the full panorama of one the most shocking and tragic events in our history."

http://www.amazon.com/President-Lincoln-...1598533738

[L Verge]

New books have been coming in fast and furious over the past month, and I believe that this is one of the stacks. Oddly enough, Harold asked for his prize-winning Lincoln and the Press book to be the one that he autographs. I suspect that he wasn't sure if this one would be out in time. It sounds like his usual, impressive work; but I can't imagine that he has covered anything that hasn't been touched on by other experts (including himself in previous books).

We also have the Kate Chase bio on order. I have been out all this week, so it may already have come in.

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(12-31-2014 09:30 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(12-31-2014 08:28 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Scheduled for release Feb. 24, 2015:

President Lincoln Assassinated!!: The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning: (A Special Publication of The Library of America).


Sounds right up our alley follow Forum members!

Bill, the man is indeed prolific!

I believe I read somewhere recently that Harold has over 42 books, articles, manuscripts, edited pieces, etc. to his credit. For awhile there, I thought Ed Steers was giving him a run for his money!

[Eva Elisabeth]

(02-22-2015 08:23 PM)L Verge Wrote:  New books have been coming in fast and furious over the past month, and I believe that this is one of the stacks. It sounds like his usual, impressive work; but I can't imagine that he has covered anything that hasn't been touched on by other experts (including himself in previous books).

That's what I'm a bit afraid of, too (and the book is not a bargain). The crux with all the Lincoln books (as not published here) is that I can't thumb through them in a bookstore or order for inspection and return if they seem disappointing.