With a deft, probing style and no small amount of swagger, Swanson, a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, has crafted pure narrative pleasure, sure to satisfy the casual reader and Civil War aficionado alike. Taking the reader into the action, the story is shot through with breathless, vivid, even gory detail. For 12 days, assisted by family and some women smitten by his legendary physical beauty, Booth relied on smarts, stealth and luck to elude the best detectives, military officers and local police the federal government could muster. ) conjures up an exhausted yet jubilant nation ruptured by grief, stunned by tragedy and hell-bent on revenge.
With great power, passion and at a thrilling, breakneck pace, Swanson ( Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution Now, by God, I'll put him through." On April 14, Booth did just that. Hearing Lincoln's April 10 victory speech, famed actor and Confederate die-hard John Wilkes Booth turned to a friend and remarked with seething hatred, "That means nigger citizenship. ( From the publisher.In the early days of April 1865, with the bloody war to preserve the union finished, Swanson tells us, Abraham Lincoln was "jubilant." Elsewhere in Washington, the other player in the coming drama of the president's assassination was miserable. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as you've never read it before.
From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from. For almost two weeks, he confounded the manhunters, slipping away from their every move and denying them the justice they sought.īased on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, Manhunt is a fully documented work, but it is also a fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. James Swanson is the Edgar Award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Manhunt and its sequel, Bloody Crimes. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness.Īt the very center of this story is John Wilkes Booth, America's notorious villain. The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history-the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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