Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer / James L. Swanson.

Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer / James L. Swanson.

First edition.

0060518499 (alk. paper)
9780060518493 (alk. paper)

New York : William Morrow, [2006]

©2006

English

448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

E457.5 .S993 2006

364.152/4/0973/09034

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, John Wilkes Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, this book is a fully documented work, but it is also a tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal, an hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters.--From publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-438) and index.

1060L Lexile

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