| Authors: |
Stashower, Daniel.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States.
Lincoln, Abraham,1809-1865 -- Assassination attempt, 1861.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Minotaur Books, 2013. |
| Description: |
ix, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0312600224 (hbk.) 9780312600228 (hbk.) |
| Notes: |
Maps on lining papers. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: |
Long, narrow boxes -- The cooper and the rail-splitter. His hour had not yet come ; The apprentice ; How I became a detective ; Ardent spirits ; Pink lady ; Let us dare to do our duty ; It's coming yet -- Plums and nuts. A pig-tail whistle ; Mobtown ; Suspicions of danger ; Hostile organizations ; The man and the hour ; If I alone must do it ; A postponed rebellion ; A rabid rebel ; A single red ballot ; Whitewash ; The music agent ; A few determined men ; An assault of some kind ; The assassin's knife -- The martyr and the scapegoat. The flight of Abraham ; The hour of peril ; Some very tall swearing ; An infamous lie. |
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| Tags |
lincoln, murder, of |
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| Summary: |
Two-time Edgar award-winning author Daniel Stashower uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War. |