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- catalog abstract "All of the known writings of John Wilkes Booth are included in this collection. Of this wealth of material, the most important item is a previously unpublished twenty-page manuscript discovered at the Players Club in Manhattan. Written by Booth in 1860 in a form similar to Mark Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, it makes clear that his hatred for Lincoln was formed early and was deeply rooted in his pro-slavery and pro-Southern ideology. Also included in the nearly seventy documents are six love letters to a seventeen-year-old Boston girl, Isabel Sumner, written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln; several explicit statements of Booth's political convictions; and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. The documents show that Booth, although opinionated and impulsive, was not an isolated madman. Rather, he was a highly successful actor and ladies' man who also was a Confederate agent. Along with many others, he believed that Lincoln was a tyrant whose policies threatened civil liberties. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b10437492.
- catalog contributor b10437493.
- catalog contributor b10437494.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "All of the known writings of John Wilkes Booth are included in this collection. Of this wealth of material, the most important item is a previously unpublished twenty-page manuscript discovered at the Players Club in Manhattan. Written by Booth in 1860 in a form similar to Mark Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, it makes clear that his hatred for Lincoln was formed early and was deeply rooted in his pro-slavery and pro-Southern ideology. Also included in the nearly seventy documents are six love letters to a seventeen-year-old Boston girl, Isabel Sumner, written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln; several explicit statements of Booth's political convictions; and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. The documents show that Booth, although opinionated and impulsive, was not an isolated madman. Rather, he was a highly successful actor and ladies' man who also was a Confederate agent. Along with many others, he believed that Lincoln was a tyrant whose policies threatened civil liberties. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 171 p., [14] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Right or wrong, God judge me.".
- catalog identifier "0252023471 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Right or wrong, God judge me.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Right or wrong, God judge me.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.7/092 21".
- catalog subject "Assassins United States Archives.".
- catalog subject "Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 Archives.".
- catalog subject "E457.5 .B667 1997".
- catalog subject "Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Assassination Sources.".
- catalog title ""Right or wrong, God judge me" : the writings of John Wilkes Booth / edited by John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper.".
- catalog type "Archives. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".