![]() ![]() It’s not a book I would have selected, but once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. One of the books we had selected for the non-fiction readers’ group at my public library was unavailable in paperback in time to read this year, so our librarian picked this one as a last-minute substitution. But as it was, Booth spent a tough twelve days on the road before he died in on a Virginia farm surrounded by the 16th New York Cavalry. And if he had spent any time planning his escape (and if he hadn’t broken his leg), the Lincoln assassination might be the world’s most intriguing unsolved crime. And a riveting twelve days it was!That Booth succeeded in his assassination attempt with so little planning appears to me to be just plain luck. ![]() Now I know all the ins and outs of the dastardly event and the twelve days in April 1865 when the whole country was on the lookout for the presidential assassin. That’s about all I remembered about the Lincoln assassination before I read Manhunt. ![]()
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