The assassination of Lincoln : history and myth
"The Civil War officially ended at Appomattox soon after President Lincoln's second inauguration. During his first term he had been widely viewed by special-interest groups as a good-natured, indecisive bungler, and worse. In the South he was still despised, and many in the North, especially the radicals in the Republican party, distrusted and derided his leniency toward the vanquished. On the evening of April 14, 1865, an assassin's bullet irrevocably altered the way Abraham Lincoln would be viewed by Americans. In life a cunning politician, Lincoln became in death a selfless martyr. Lloyd Lewis explicates the mythology that evolved out of Lincoln's death, the outpouring of national grief, the pursuit of John Wilkes booth and the conspirators, booth's fate, and the frequent moving and reburial of Lincoln's coffin."--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1994
xviii, 367 pages ; 21 cm
9780803279490, 0803279493
29753294
The dying god : Three silver stars
Mad march hares
In the cabin of the "river queen"
"Just a friend from Illinois"
"A ship sailing rapidly"
Horrible carnival
Cold rain in the morning
"Black Easter"
They knew what God wanted
The dying god
The mirrors were draped
Half circus, half heartbreak
The American Judas : Portrait of an assassin's father
Women "spoiled" him
Cartoon assassins
"Ham actor"
Red sundown
"The widow-woman"
The four who were hanged
Sharks and cats
"This is to certify-"
Phantom footsteps
"The glory-to-God man"
Altar smoke : Myths at the tomb of Lincoln
The "Coney" men
The Lincoln guard of honor
The dreams of a prophet
The holiday of death
"The shapes arise"
Afterglow
Originally published: Myths after Lincoln. New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1929
"A Bison book."