Mensenjacht
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789021068794
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Sijthoff B.V.
Pages no: 447
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Mystery,
War,
Politics,
American History,
Crime,
True Crime,
Military History,
Civil War,
Presidents
The author James L. Swanson isn't a historian but a journalist. He has been however, as he put it, "obsessed" with Abraham Lincoln since childhood and a collector of memorabilia regarding the assassination and someone who had read exhaustively on the subject even before he began formally researching...
So if you think, you know everything about the Lincoln killing, you don't.Read this book. It is written like a movie. After you read it, go to Ford's.
Much better than Bloody Crimes by the same author.
Fabulous! Exciting, suspenseful, very well written. And I learned a LOT of things I never knew. Highly recommend. Well worth your time.
How the heck did Swanson manage to make this very well-known story so riveting? I mean, everyone knows that (UNNECESSARY SPOILER ALERT MOSTLY JUST FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE SPENT YOUR LIFE LIVING IN A CAVE---->) President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater by stage actor John Wilkes Booth, w...