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"Craughwell offers an entertaining account of one of the stranger incidents in American history." - Publishers Weekly "Summoning the raw spirit of crime novels and horror stories, as well as the forensic detail of a coroner's inquest, Thomas J. Craughwell has turned the eerie final chapter of the Lincoln story into a guilty pleasure." - Harold Holzer, Washington Post Book World "Thomas J. Craughwell has rescued this bizarre episode from the dustbin of history... It does more than simply retell a forgotten story; it sheds new light on the incident, thanks to the long-neglected original handwritten reports of Patrick Tyrrell, the Secret Service agent who handled the case... Craughwell tells the story in a work that is sometimes morbid and creepy, but never less than fascinating." - Eric Fettmann, New York Post"
The Times, 21 April 2007
This is a marvellous look into Gilded Age America and the well
springs of many of our modern vexations. Immigrant and urban culture,
robber barons and financial hoodlums, the bread-and-circuses numbing of the
electorate, political scandal and presidential intrigues, the war between
the ridiculous and the sublime that seems to infect our nations are all
subtexts to this readable book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Craughwell offers an entertaining account of one of the stranger incidents in American history." - Publishers Weekly "Summoning the raw spirit of crime novels and horror stories, as well as the forensic detail of a coroner's inquest, Thomas J. Craughwell has turned the eerie final chapter of the Lincoln story into a guilty pleasure." - Harold Holzer, Washington Post Book World "Thomas J. Craughwell has rescued this bizarre episode from the dustbin of history... It does more than simply retell a forgotten story; it sheds new light on the incident, thanks to the long-neglected original handwritten reports of Patrick Tyrrell, the Secret Service agent who handled the case... Craughwell tells the story in a work that is sometimes morbid and creepy, but never less than fascinating." - Eric Fettmann, New York Post"
The Times, 21 April 2007
This is a marvellous look into Gilded Age America and the well
springs of many of our modern vexations. Immigrant and urban culture,
robber barons and financial hoodlums, the bread-and-circuses numbing of the
electorate, political scandal and presidential intrigues, the war between
the ridiculous and the sublime that seems to infect our nations are all
subtexts to this readable book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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