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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln did not come without warning: it had been foretold. Alford focuses on the president's fascination with Spiritualism, and demonstrates how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Lincoln was deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational. After repeated personal tragedies, the Lincolns turned for solace to Spiritualism, that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living....
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was even more shocking--for no one could have imagined that...
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