Book Description
Covers the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596432241
Covers the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
Author : James L. Swanson
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545496543
A breathtaking and dramatic account of the JFK assassination by the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER! In his new young-adult book on the Kennedy assassination, James Swanson will transport readers back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. As he did in his bestselling Scholastic YA book, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER, Swanson will deploy his signature "you are there" style -- a riveting, ticking-clock pace, with an unprecedented eye for dramatic details and impeccable historical accuracy -- to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before.The book will be illustrated with archival photos, and will have diagrams, source notes, bibliography, places to visit, and an index.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596432241
Covers the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed.
Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031637072X
William Manchester's epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy's assassination--now restored to print in a new paperback edition. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedy's death. Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective -- to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFK's assassination -- is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history.
Author : Bill O'Reilly
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627797009
The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service and medical professionals saved the president's life. Mere days after his near-death experience, Reagan's personal strength propelled him back into his presidential duties. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing Reagan, with characteristically gripping storytelling, this story explores the events of the day Reagan was shot. From the scene of the shooting and the dramatic action of the Secret Service, to the FBI's interrogation of the shooter, the life-saving measures of the medical professionals and the president's extraordinary recovery, this is a page-turning account of an attempted assassination and its aftermath. This title has Common Core connections.
Author : Cathy Trost
Publisher : Sourcebooks
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402201585
Packaged with an audio CD, this title lets readers relive the JFK assassination with accounts from top reporters in text, photos, broadcasts and rare archival audio.
Author : Geri Spieler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0230621848
Winner of the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival Award (Wild Card category) "I'm not sorry I tried...if successful, the assassination...just might have triggered the kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." --Sara Jane Moore in 1976 Journalist Geri Spieler met would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore while she was in prison; Taking Aim at the President is based on over two decades of interviews as well as independant research. Spieler follows Moore's actions from her childhood in a small West Virginia town to her release from prison in December 2007. Moore's life was never conventional, and along the way she entered and dropped out of the military, was married five times, and was both a political radical and an FBI informant. Focusing on the complex psychology and motivations of a quintessentially desperate housewife and the only woman to ever fire a bullet at an American president, Spieler delivers a nuanced portrait of an elusive person and a fascinating glimpse back at a turbulent period in American history.
Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1714 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393045253
Bugliosi, brilliant prosecutor and bestselling author, is perhaps the only man in America capable of "prosecuting" Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of John F. Kennedy. His book is a narrative compendium of fact, ballistic evidence, and, above all, common sense.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1466864168
The headline that shocked the nation: President Lincoln Shot by Assassin John Wilkes Booth! One of the most exciting stories in American history told with full color illustrations. The fifth installment in Don Brown's Actual Times series featuring significant days in American history covers the Lincoln assassination and the ensuing manhunt. In He Has Shot the President! both Lincoln and Booth emerge as vivid characters, defined by the long and brutal Civil War, and set on a collision course toward tragedy. With his characteristic straightforward storytelling voice and dynamic water color illustration, Don Brown gives readers a chronological account of the events and also captures the emotion of the death of America's greatest president.
Author : Tom Taylor
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2023-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.