Sic Semper Tyrannis: Why John Wilkes Booth Shot Abraham Lincoln - Brossura

Richter, William L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1440170266 ISBN 13: 9781440170263

Casa editrice: iUniverse, 2008

Riassunto

From Richard Lawrence to John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr., Americans have preferred their presidential assassins, whether failed or successful, to be more or less crazy. Seemingly, this absolves us of having to wonder where the American experiment might have gone wrong.

John Wilkes Booth has been no exception to this rule. But was he?

In a new, provocative study comprising three essays, historian William L. Richter delves into the psyche of Booth and finds him far from insane. Beginning with a modern, less adulating interpretation of President Abraham Lincoln, Richter is the first scholar to examine Booth's few known, often unfinished speeches and essays to draw a realistic mind-picture of the man who intensely believed in common American political theories of his day, and acted violently to carry them out during the time of America's greatest war.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: iUniverse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1440170266
• ISBN 13: 9781440170263
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 200