The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln - Softcover

Larson, Kate Clifford

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9780465018932: The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

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ISBN 10: 0465018939 ISBN 13: 9780465018932

Publisher: Basic Books, 2010

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Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin€™s Accomplice tells the gripping story of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through experience of its only female participant.Confederate sympathizer Mary Surratt ran a boarding house in Washington, and the depth of her complicity in the murder of President Lincoln has been debated since she was arrested on April 17, 1865.Calling upon long-lost interviews, confessions, and court testimony, historian Kate Clifford Larson magnificently captures how Surratt€™s actions defied nineteenth-century norms of piety and allegiance. A riveting account of espionage and murder, The Assassin€™s Accomplice offers a revealing examination of America€™s most remembered assassination.

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About the Author:

Kate Clifford Larson is an adjunct professor of history at Simmons College. She is the author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003). She lives in Winchester, Massachusetts.

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John Wilkes Booth did not act alone; eight people were eventually indicted as co-conspirators in Lincoln's murder. Accounts of their lives, nefarious plots, and historical trial fill this audiobook with the details true-crime and Civil War aficionados love. Narrator Laural Merlington reads with a forceful expression, modulating her word emphasis and tone to keep the listener's attention level during the prosecution high and the final moments on the scaffold riveting. Although she sometimes gives a gruff snarl for men and a female squeak for women, Merlington's own distinct voice usually prevails. Because the principal conspirator, Mary Surratt, was a woman, having a female narrator brings a credible authenticity to Mary's wordsand to her screams as she approaches the stairs of the gallows. J.A.H. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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