![]() And while Lincoln's history defies brevity, Booth's own story as part of the era's pre-eminent family of American actors is complicated, too. Many minor accomplices and unwitting dupes figured in Booth's plan (originally a plot to kidnap the president), both before and after April 14, 1865, the day of the terrible deed. ![]() This sprawling narrative is a storyteller's nightmare. Swanson's "Manhunt" has found a reasonably new angle from which to approach its material. ![]() Nearly 141 years later, the body of literature about Lincoln's death is immense and seemingly exhaustive. ![]() On May 24, 1865, less than a month after the death of John Wilkes Booth, a publisher issued a book called "The Assassinator." It was a fictionalized account of Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of a historians' cottage industry that is still going strong. ![]()
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