John Wilkes Booth and the women who loved him /
When John Wilkes Booth died, shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln, all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautif...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Regnery History,
[2018]
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| Summary: | When John Wilkes Booth died, shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln, all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day, the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621575962 1621575969 |