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Since It Was First Published In 1938, Asia Booth Clarke's Memoir Of Her Brother John Wilkes Booth Has Been Recognized As The Single Most Important Document Available For Understanding The Personality Of The Assassin Of President Abraham Lincoln. Clarke, A Poet And Author Of Two Other Volumes Of Biography Of Her Celebrated Actor-family Members, Wrote This Reminiscence In 1874 When Lincoln's Murder And Her Brother's Ensuing Death At The Hands Of Federal Soldiers Were Still. Painfully Fresh In Her Mind. She Hoped At Some Point To See The Work Published. Yet She Felt Compelled To Keep It Secret Because It Might Enrage Her Husband, A Professional Comedian Whose Anger At His Own Arrest In 1865 On Suspicion Of Association With Booth Had Threatened Their Marriage. At Her Death In 1888 The Manuscript Passed To Friends. A Half Century Later Her Heirs Felt The Public Was Receptive To Such An Intimate View Of The Most Famous Assassin In American. History. This Edition Includes The First Biographical Appreciation Of The Talented Asia And Corrects Deficiencies In Earlier Prints Of The Memoir. Also, Published For The First Time, Are Family Letters About The Assassination, A Chronology Of Booth's

Author

Asia Booth Clarke

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585273983

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.7 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14