The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—And Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—And Why It Failed

Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

448 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective medium-paced
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Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, DC, for his first inauguration. The conspirators were p...

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