This past April marked the 150th anniversary of that great national tragedy, the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Harold Holzer is one of our great Lincoln scholars. In this collection Holzer has compiled some essential reading. Here are the graphic accounts of eyewitnesses; people who were at Ford's Theater when Lincoln was shot, a doctor who was there when Lincoln was dying, there's even a diary entry from the assassin John Wilkes Booth. This documentation of a most terrible event makes for some gripping reading. In this interview Holzer displays his encyclopedic knowledge of Lincoln's life. In April Holzer received The Lincoln Prize. He certainly deserved it. The publisher of this collection, the Library of America, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the written works of our greatest American writers. Their website is worth a look: www.loa.org
Book Nook: President Lincoln Assassinated! by Harold Holzer
