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The authoritative published record of the Lincoln assassination investigation

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations   ix
List of Tables   xi
Acknowledgments   xiii
Introduction   xv
Editorial Note   xxix

THE DOCUMENTS   1
Documents are listed alphabetically by the addresser (or, where none exists, the subject of the document) and chronologically within the same addresser's file.
Letters written by investigator H. L. Burnett are segregated and begin on page 239.

Index   1405

About the Author

William C. Edwards is a business analyst who spent years meticulously transcribing the documents surrounding the Lincoln assassination trial. Edward Steers Jr. is the author or editor of numerous books about Lincoln and his assassination, including Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators. He is a retired research scientist with the National Institute of Health.

Reviews

"This is the documentary publication of the decade in the field of Lincoln assassination studies. The original records form a goldmine, with veins running off in many and unexpected directions - not merely assassination studies but also military law, politics, race relations, public mourning and hysteria, and civil liberties issues. There is no comparable printed book. Not even close." Terry Alford, editor of John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir "I cannot overstate the contribution that this book makes to the field. Anyone who has ever struggled with nineteenth-century handwriting, often made even more difficult to read on microfilm, will be delighted to have these primary sources in hard copy. Anyone doing research on the assassination in the future will have to consult this book." Thomas Reed Turner, author of Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln "Dreiser's need to unburden himself to women extends throughout his lifetime. His passion and enthusiasm - for women and for ideas - diminish little over fifty years... Riggio's admirable collection, assisted by useful footnotes, brings light new and important information not only on Dreiser, but on the difficulties of earning a living as a writer in early twentieth-century America. " Deborah Clarke, Times Literary Supplement