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Historian Nora Titone, a writer with Seattle roots, visits from Chicago to read from her important, new historical account of the circumstances and family history of John Wilkes Booth—Abraham Lincoln's assassin. My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy (Simon & Schuster) bring new information from letters, articles, personal effects and diaries, most never before used in serious, scholarly work. "Filled with ambition, rivalry, betrayal, and tragedy, this story of the celebrated Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and the two sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, who competed to wear his crown, is as gripping as a fine work of fiction. Yet, given the role that the younger played in murdering President Abraham Lincoln, My Thoughts Be Bloody is simultaneously an important work of history—the best account I have ever read of the complex forces that led John Wilkes Booth to carry a gun into Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865." - Doris Kearns Goodwin, from the Foreword.
