Author: John Carroll PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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History of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln
Author: John Carroll PowerHistory of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, Including a History of the Lincoln Guard of Honor, with Eight Years Lincoln Memorial Service
Author: 1819-1894John Carroll PowerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781548555108
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
History of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, Including a History of the Lincoln Guard of Honor, With Eight Years Lincoln Memorial Services by 1819-1894John Carroll Power, first published in 1890, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
History of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln
Author: John Carroll PowerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781504268011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Hardcover reprint of the original 1887 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Power, John Carroll, Ed. History Of An Attempt To Steal The Body Of Abraham Lincoln, Late President Of The United States Of America, Including A History Of The Lincoln Guard Of Honor, With Eight Years Lincoln Memorial Services. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Power, John Carroll, Ed. History Of An Attempt To Steal The Body Of Abraham Lincoln, Late President Of The United States Of America, Including A History Of The Lincoln Guard Of Honor, With Eight Years Lincoln Memorial Services, . Springfield, Ill., H. W. Rokker, 1887. Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
History of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln (late President of the United States of America)
Author: John Carroll 1819-1894 Ed PowerPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014627605
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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Stealing Lincoln's Body
Author: Thomas J. CRAUGHWELLPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
On the night of the 1876 presidential election, a gang of counterfeiters attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context. This rousing story of hapless con men, intrepid federal agents, and ordinary Springfield citizens offers an unusual glimpse into late-nineteenth-century America.
Stealing Lincoln’s Body
Author: Thomas J. CraughwellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674030397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In a lively and dramatic narrative, Thomas J. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context.
History of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln
Author: John Carroll PowerIn the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
Author: Terry AlfordPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
“Here is Lincoln in the Bardo—for real. You couldn’t make it up—necromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President.” —Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet—and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning—in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president’s fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry Alford reveals, he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. Like millions of other Americans, including the Booths, Lincoln and his wife, Mary, suffered repeated personal tragedies, and turned for solace to Spiritualism, a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living. Remarkably, the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums, including Charles Colchester, a specialist in “blood writing” whom Mary first brought to her husband, and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients, John Wilkes Booth. Alford’s expansive, richly-textured chronicle follows the two families across the nineteenth century, uncovering new facts and stories about Abraham and Mary while drawing indelible portraits of the Booths—from patriarch Julius, a famous actor in his own right, to brother Edwin, the most talented member of the family and a man who feared peacock feathers, to their confidant Adam Badeau, who would become, strangely, the ghostwriter for President Ulysses S. Grant. At every turn, Alford shows that despite the progress of the age—the glass hypodermic syringe, electromagnetic induction, and much more—death remained ever-present, and thus it was only rational for millions of Americans, from the president on down, to cling to beliefs that seem anything but. A novelistic narrative of two exceptional American families set against the convulsions their times, In the Houses of Their Dead ultimately leads us to consider how ghost stories helped shape the nation.
Giant in the Shadows
Author: Jason EmersonPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809330555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Giant in the Shadows is the definitive biography of Robert T. Lincoln (1843-1926), the oldest son of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and their only child to live past age eighteen. Emerson, after nearly ten years of research, draws upon previously unavailable materials to cover Robert Lincoln's entire life in detail.
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description