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Historical person
1838–1865
John Wilkes Booth was an American actor and Confederate sympathiser who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He shot the president at Ford’s Theatre in April 1865 as part of a wider failed conspiracy against Union leaders and died after a twelve-day manhunt.
John Jakes’s On Secret Service places John Wilkes Booth within a narrative shaped by crime, espionage and covert power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government.
Series
Gore Vidal’s seven-volume Narratives of Empire sequence follows the United States from the revolutionary generation to the Cold War, combining the lives of the fictional Schuyler, Sanford and Day families with presidents, senators, journalists and political operators. The novels treat public history as a contest over power, reputation…
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