The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, & a Mummy. By C. Wyatt Evans. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2004. Pp. xv, 269. $24.95.)

This compelling narrative opens with the death by his own hand of a drifter, David George, in January 1903 in Enid, Oklahoma, and closes with the publication one hundred years later of the most recent installment in the Abraham Lincoln conspiracy saga, Leonard F. Gutteridge and Ray A. Neff's Dark Union. George, or to be specific, his embalmed corpse, for reasons that still seem incredible, soon metamorphosed into the remains of ...

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