If you are planning a trip to Washington DC, you should include on your list of things to see and do Ford’s Theatre and the Peterson House. Both places have been recently remodeled and updated. The stack of Lincoln related books are impressive. Undoubtedly this one is there. I’m ...
The author grabbed my attention at the very beginning by admitting that when she started the research for this book she believed that Mary Surratt was not involved in the assassination. The author must have been exposed of the same conventional wisdom that I’ve picked up over the years--that Mary S...
I can't quite put my finger on what I disliked about this book. First, I almost thought there was too much information put into the book, which was very short in the first place. Second, I think if the author's premise, although I can't be sure it was, that Mary Surrat was innocent of the charge of ...