1242: 2/2 My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy, by Nora Titone. Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Image: Edwin Booth with his daughter Edwina, circa 1864 My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy,by Nora Titone (https://www.amazon.com/Nora-Titone/e/B00411A2C0/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) . Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Doris+Kearns+Goodwin&text=Doris+Kearns+Goodwin&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=digital-text) . To re-create the lost world of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, this book takes readers on a panoramic tour of nineteenth-century America, from the streets of 1840s Baltimore to the gold fields of California, from the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama to the glittering mansions of Gilded Age New York. Edwin, ruthlessly competitive and gifted, did everything he could to lock his younger brother out of the theatrical game. As he came of age, John Wilkes found his plans for stardom thwarted by his older sibling’s meteoric rise. Their divergent paths—Edwin’s an upward race to riches and social prominence, and John’s a downward spiral into failure and obscurity—kept pace with the hardening of their opposite political views and their mutual dislike. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage. https://www.amazon.com/My-Thoughts-Be-Bloody-American-ebook/dp/B003UYURO2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=my+thoughts+be+bloody+titone&qid=1614549715&s=digital-text&sr=1-1