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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fascinating and original contribution to the Lincoln bibliography . . . [Rhodehamel] offers unforgettable characters and deeply researched historical context.
—James Swanson,
The Wall Street JournalRhodehamel elegantly tells the familiar story of the Lincoln assassination from the view of race with engaging prose and serious scholarship.
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New York Journal of BooksTable of ContentsPrologue
1. Richmond, Virginia, April 4, 1865
2. "All Those Goddamned Booths"
3. Caste
4. "There Are No More Actors!"
5. "I Used to Be a Slave"
6. A Young Southern Gentleman
7. "I Am Myself Alone!"
8. John Brown's Body
9. The "Corner-Stone"
10. The Rise of Abraham Lincoln
11. The Triumph of the "Black" Republicans
12. Alternative Facts
13. File under "Assassination"
14. "The Negro Is Not Equal to the White Man"
15. "I Must Have Kentucky"
16. "A Star of the First Magnitude"
17. "King Abraham Africanus I"
18. "We Worked to Capture"
19. "Come Retribution"
20. "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me"
21. Countdown
22. "Every Drop of Blood"
23. Unhappy with History
24. "Might Makes Right"
25. Good Friday, 1865
26. Black Friday, 1865
27. A Long, Ugly Night
28. "Hunted like a Dog"
29. The Last Act
30. Reckonings
Epilogue
Notes
Index
