Manhunt : The 12-Day Chase for Lincolns Killer

English

ISBN: 0060518499

EAN: 9780060518493

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws/Social Science / Criminology/History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 02/06/2006

Synopsis: Combining magnificent historical research with a thrilling story, Manhunt describes the hourbyhour details of the twelve days after Abraham Lincolns assassination when various factions within the U.S. government and even some outside it hunted for the Presidents killer, John Wilkes Booth. The pursuit of Lincolns assassins is one of the greatest untold stories in American history. From April 14th to 26th, 1865, the hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices transfixed, thrilled, and horrified a nation of mourners who watched as this onetime thespian star led the Union army on a wild chase across the swamps of Maryland and into the forests of Virginia. Manhunt is the first book devoted entirely to these twelve, dramatic days between the murder of the president and the capture and death of his killer. The hunt begins with Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, an imperious and fearsome man whom Lincoln called, Mars, God of War. From a makeshift command center set up just step from the presidents death bed, Stanton took control of the government and the manhunt. An hour by hour account of those twelve days told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, Manhunt makes clear why Booth refused to be taken alive and exposes which conspirators, now lost to history, escaped justice and lived to tell the tale.

Awards: Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) – null  Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) – null 

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Manhunt : The 12-Day Chase for Lincolns Killer

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.41 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 21.66 oz

Pages: 464