American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family-Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth

A New York Times–bestselling author's "lively" account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln (The New Yorker).

Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America's most famous theatrical family. Yet the Booth name is forever etched in the history books for one terrible reason: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.

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