Fates and Traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth /
Chiaverini, Jennifer, 1969- , author.
Fates and Traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth / Jennifer Chiaverini. - Large print edition. - Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016. - 683 pages : map ; 23 cm.
John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America--has been the subject of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Though in his plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln Booth did not act alone--he is often portrayed as a shadowy figure, devoid of human connection. Yet four women were integral in the life of this unquiet American: Mary Ann, the mother he revered above all but country; his sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the secrets of his vengeful wrath.
9781410492210
2016036045
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 --Fiction.
Conspiracies--Fiction.
Assassins--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era.
F CHI
Fates and Traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth / Jennifer Chiaverini. - Large print edition. - Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016. - 683 pages : map ; 23 cm.
John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America--has been the subject of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Though in his plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln Booth did not act alone--he is often portrayed as a shadowy figure, devoid of human connection. Yet four women were integral in the life of this unquiet American: Mary Ann, the mother he revered above all but country; his sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the secrets of his vengeful wrath.
9781410492210
2016036045
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 --Fiction.
Conspiracies--Fiction.
Assassins--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era.
F CHI