Craig L. Symonds, Frank J. Williams

The Lincoln Assassination

Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory
Herausgeber: Holzer, Harold; Williams, Frank J.; Symonds, Craig L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers the studies and arguments about Lincoln assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction - both religious and secular, as well as the iconography that Lincoln's murder and deification inspired, and the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865, the relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators.

Produktdetails

• The North's Civil War
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780823232260
• ISBN-10: 0823232263
• Artikelnr.: 28522854

Autorenporträt

Harold Holzer is Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and one of the nation's leading authorities on Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. He is chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and has written, co-written, or edited forty-seven books, most recently Lincoln and the Power of the Press. Craig L. Symonds is Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy and the author of many books on Civil War and naval history. He won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2005, The Lincoln Prize (with James M. McPherson) in 2009, and the Dudley Knox Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Naval History in 2014.