World Famous Comics: The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels))
The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels))
From: ComicsLit Publisher: ComicsLit Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: ComicsLit Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 80 Publication Date: December 05, 2005
Book Description: Geary turns his attention to the most famous assassination of the Victorian era, that of President Lincoln. The details he reveals are fascinating. Booth worked with a group of disgruntled Southern sympathizers out to decapitate much of the US Executive branch, not just the President! Geary also details the flight of the culprits and the hot pursuit of federal agents.
"Popular" history as it ought to be done This is the seventh in a very high-quality series that includes Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, H. H. Holmes, and Charles Guiteau. Think of it as "Classics Illustrated" for adults. Geary's black-and-white crow-quill drawing style fits perfectly his carefully narrated history of the sixty-two days between Lincoln's second Inauguration and his entombment in Springfield, by way of the assassination plot, the unsuccessful attacks on Johnson and Seward, Booth's convenient escape, and his death in Garrett's tobacco barn. I've long thought there was more there than meets the eye, with the focus on the peculiar actions of Stanton, both before and after Ford's Theater, and the author mentions those points in passing, but he sticks pretty close to the official train of events. An excellent piece of work.
another winner Once again, Geary takes a complicated crime and presents it in an understandable -- and very enjoyable & redable -- level.
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