Drawing on rare archival materials and trial transcripts, Swanson tells the story through the eyes of both hunter and hunted, creating a page-turning adventure that is as riveting as it is real. The first book devoted entirely to the dramatic days between the murder of the president and the capture and death of his killer, Manhunt is a fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal.
James L. Swanson, an author and attorney, was born on Lincoln's birthday and has studied and collected books, documents, art and artifacts connected with Abraham Lincoln's life and death since he was ten years old. At the Cato Institute, he is a senior fellow in Constitutional studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. He has written for the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, George, Playboy, American Heritage and other publications, and is the co-author of Lincoln's Assassins, a coffee-table book on the president's assassination.
"Swanson has written a terrific narrative ... that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish just as the actual manhunt mesmerized the entire nation. It is a triumphant book."- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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"Brilliant! Absolutely haunting. . . . This historical book is almost impossible to put down." - Patricia Cornwell
"A gripping page-turner . . . Riviting . . . Booth comes across as viscerally real." - Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)
"Told expertly . . . Swanson's moment by moment account of the 12-day chase is compulsively readable." - Wall Street Journal
"Extraordinary . . . Brilliant . . . As gripping as any tightly scripted crime drama" - Boston Globe
"An action-adventure . . . infuse[d] with high drama. . . . A multifaceted chronicle." - New York Times
"Vividly readable example of the you-are-there genre . . . managed with 'CSI' immediacy." - Washington Post