He Has Shot the President!
April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln
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Publisher Description
The headline that shocked the nation: President Lincoln Shot by Assassin John Wilkes Booth! One of the most exciting stories in American history told with full color illustrations.
The fifth installment in Don Brown's Actual Times series featuring significant days in American history covers the Lincoln assassination and the ensuing manhunt. In He Has Shot the President! both Lincoln and Booth emerge as vivid characters, defined by the long and brutal Civil War, and set on a collision course toward tragedy. With his characteristic straightforward storytelling voice and dynamic water color illustration, Don Brown gives readers a chronological account of the events and also captures the emotion of the death of America's greatest president.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fifth book in the Actual Times series is a sober account of the assassination of President Lincoln. Booth "believed that robbing the Union of the president's leadership would cripple the North and save the South," writes Brown; the assassination takes place early on, and the brunt of the book follows Booth's attempted flight, Lincoln's death, and the "relentless, sweeping investigation" to find Booth and his conspirators. Brown's shadowy pencil-and-watercolor images mitigate some of the horror of events that included multiple shootings, stabbings, and the eventual hanging of four involved with the assassination plot. Even so, a sense of the nation's loss reverberates through this harrowing recounting. Ages 6 9.
