
Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Terry Alford
When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, his friends were stunned—not only by the murder but by the thought that someone they knew as fantastically gifted, successful and kind-hearted could commit such a crime. Fortune's Fool, the first biography of Booth ever written, is the life story of this talented and troubling individual.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9780195054125
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- John Wilkes BoothLincoln assassination19th-century America
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2015)
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