title: The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory A Lincoln Forum Book (The North's Civil War)
author: Craig L. Symonds
description: In the fourth volume from scholarly collective the Lincoln Forum (following Lincoln Revisited), 10 contributors turn their attention to the 16th president's assassination. Editors Holzer and Williams collaborate on an interesting (and well-illustrated) look at popular engravings and prints portraying Lincoln's final hours, some of which put a crowd of 50 at Lincoln's deathbed, in a room large enough for no more than a half-dozen. Richard Sloan looks at Lincoln's funeral procession and his time lying in state in New York City, with interesting insight for amateur urban historians. Thomas Lowry's "Not Everybody Mourned Lincoln's Death" is vivid but narrow, focusing on the easily-grasped point that many Americans, on the heels of the Civil War, were glad to see Lincoln dead. Multiple articles look at the trial of John Wilkes Booth's conspirators, often disagreeing about which of the accused, convicted and hanged were actually guilty. Thomas R. Turner notes that as early as the 1860s, "historians were agonizing that... there was little left to be said" about Lincoln; while this collection does reinforce that idea, it also turns up enough unanswered or undecided questions to hold readers' interest and promise more scholarship to come. B&w illus. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # LINCOLN'S YARNS AND STORIES
  
    
  
  A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes  
  that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller  
  With Introduction and Anecdotes
  
    
  
  ## By Alexander K. McClure
  
  #### Profusely Illustrated
  
  THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY  
  CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA
  
    
    
  
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  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the Great Story Telling President, whose Emancipation
  Proclamation freed more than four million slaves, was a keen politician,
  profound statesman, shrewd diplomatist, a thorough judge of men and possessed
  of an intuitive knowledge of affairs. He was the first Chief Executive to die
  at the hands of an assassin. Without school education he rose to power by
  sheer merit and will-power. Born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809, his
  surroundings being squalid, his chances for advancement were apparently
  hopeless. President Lincoln died April 15th, 1865, having been shot by J.
  Wilkes Booth the night before.
  
    
    
  
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