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My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin And John Wilkes Booth That Led To An American Tragedy (2010)

by Nora Titone(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416586164 (ISBN13: 9781416586166)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Free Press

review 1: Those Booth boys really learned their ABCs: alcoholism, bigamy, child abuse, depression, egotism, ferocity, gambling, hotheadedness, infamy, jealousy, knuckleheadedness, lowhanded behavior, megalomania, narcissism, over-reaching, pettiness, ruthlessness, STDs, truculence, underhandedness, wild mood swings, xenophobia, and I leave q and z for you to discover. Alice Miller once wrote a book about how childhood trauma can produce either a Picasso or a Stalin. She should have looked at this family: it produced both in one generation. A very well-done piece of historical writing.
review 2: Most of us have been taught that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. And most of us know little else about the assassin other than the fact that he had been a... moren actor. This book delves into the life of John Wilkes Booth. Ms.Titone’s meticulous, documented research traces the history of the Booth family, and provides little known information about the motives behind Booth’s desire to assassinate the President. This thought provoking, historical family drama reads like a novel! It is a fascinating look at a family rivalry which ultimately may have influenced United States history. Don’t pass this one up! less

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