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Lots and lots of little words, but little content
2/5 Stars
Although sometimes entertaining, this is a light-weight and over-written account of one of the most important events in American history. The style recalls the days of authors being paid by the word, and it seems to have been composed for an audience of pre-teens. The overblown language used to describe Lincoln would have made that most skeptical and irreligious of presidents laugh. (His "sacred blood," and the "sacred locks of hair" of the "martyr.") One who read this comes away thinking Edwin Stanton, the ferociously partisan zealot who frequently referred to Lincoln as "the baboon", was his most loyal disciple. Nor is much said of such key figures as the president's missing guard, John Parker, or of the suspicious behavior of Stanton and others which has historically given rise to serious questions of a wider conspiracy. In a book devoted to the assassination and the hunt for those responsible, these are very serious omissions.
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