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This intriguing book examines Lincoln's assassination from a behavioral and medical sciences perspective, providing new insights into everything from ballistics and forensics to the medical intervention to save his life, the autopsy results, his compromised embalming, and the final odyssey of his bodily remains.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1 A Target on His Back 2 A Fever in the Blood 3 For Want of a Nail 4 A Lucky Shot? 5 A Story Too Good to Fact Check 6 Deathbed Vigil 7 We Traced the Wound 8 Ballistics: The Science of Lincoln's Gunshot Wound 9 Did Lincoln's Doctors Doom Him? 10 Embalming Lincoln 11 We Mourn a Father Slain 12 The Politics of Death 13 Binding Up the Nation's Wounds 14 Death Will Not Be Cheated 15 "Now He Belongs to the Ages" 16 There Will Be Blood 17 "Not So Black and Shiney as It Was Long Ago" Notes Bibliography Index A photo essay follows page 128.

About the Author

E. Lawrence Abel, PhD, is distinguished faculty professor of psychology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Wayne State University.