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　　It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged

actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre,

escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met

his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria

that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those

were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic

elements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even more

fascinating.

Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremost

Lincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to a

deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of

the Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array of

archival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on the

background and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of his

plot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates of

the conspirators.

Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects common

misperceptions and analyzes the political motivation behind Booth’s

plan to unseat Lincoln, in whom the assassin saw a treacherous

autocrat, “an American Caesar.” In preparing his study, Kauffman

spared no effort getting at the truth: He even lived in Booth’s

house, and re-created key parts of Booth’s escape. Thanks to

Kauffman’s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of

this defining event in our nation’s history, and they will come to

see how public sentiment about Booth at the time of the

assassination and ever since has made an accurate account of his

actions and motives next to impossible–until now.

In nearly 140 years there has been an overwhelming body of

literature on the Lincoln assassination, much of it incomplete and

oftentimes contradictory. In American Brutus, Kauffman finally

makes sense of an incident whose causes and effects reverberate to

this day. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times

controversial, this will become the definitive text on a watershed

event in American history.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　MICHAEL W. KAUFFMAN is a political historian and graduate of

the University of Virginia who has studied the Lincoln

assassination for more than thirty years. He has appeared on

A&E, the History Channel, C-SPAN, and the Learning Channel, and

was called to testify as an expert witness in the 1995 Booth

exhumation hearings. He lives in southern Maryland.

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　　Advance praise for American Brutus

　　“In this definitive reinvestigation of the Lincoln assassination,

Michael Kauffman has at long last captured the real John Wilkes

Booth. Writing with confidence and clarity, Kauffman masterfully

cuts through the thicket of conflicting rumors, false stories, and

wrong assumptions, that have corrupted many earlier studies.

American Brutus is simply the most comprehensive and credible

account ever published about the Lincoln assassination. By

unmasking Booth’s real motivation while meticulously stripping away

a century of accumulated folklore, Kauffman unlocks the mystery of

why Lincoln was killed.”

　　–GERALD POSNER, author of Case Closed and Why America Slept

　　“In this gripping, often surprising reexamination of America’s

most notorious crime, Michael W. Kauffman rescues the Lincoln

assassination from the historical waxworks. Combining exhaustive

research, computer technology, and a compulsively readable style,

Kauffman clears away more than a century of misconceptions. This

Booth is a greater actor, and a more cunning monster, than we ever

imagined.”

　　–RICHARD NORTON SMITH, executive director, Abraham Lincoln

Presidential Library and Museum

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书籍介绍

It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic elements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even more fascinating.

Now, in American Brutus , Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremost Lincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to a deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of the Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array of archival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on the background and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of his plot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates of the conspirators.

Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects common misperceptions and analyzes the political motivation behind Booth’s plan to unseat Lincoln, in whom the assassin saw a treacherous autocrat, “an American Caesar.” In preparing his study, Kauffman spared no effort getting at the truth: He even lived in Booth’s house, and re-created key parts of Booth’s escape. Thanks to Kauffman’s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of this defining event in our nation’s history, and they will come to see how public sentiment about Booth at the time of the assassination and ever since has made an accurate account of his actions and motives next to impossible–until now.

In nearly 140 years there has been an overwhelming body of literature on the Lincoln assassination, much of it incomplete and oftentimes contradictory. In American Brutus , Kauffman finally makes sense of an incident whose causes and effects reverberate to this day. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times controversial, this will become the definitive text on a watershed event in American history.

From the Hardcover edition.