Lincoln Assassination - Crime and Punishment Myth and Memorya Lincoln Forum Book

The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincoln's assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.

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Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams

Summary

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in US history. In this book, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer their studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction, and the iconography that Lincoln's murder and deification inspired.

Product details

• Authors: Harold (EDT)/ Symonds Holzer, Craig L Symonds, Craig L. Symonds, Craig L. Williams Symonds, Frank J Williams, Frank J. Williams
• Assisted by: Harold Holzer (Editor), Craig L. Symonds (Editor), Frank J. Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2014
• EAN: 9780823263981
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6398-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The North's Civil War; North's Civil War (Hardcover); The Lincoln Assassination; North's Civil War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous