SuitabookPresident Lincoln's killer and the America he left behind
Jessica Sarah Gunderson
- Reading
- Pause around political violence and its consequences and ask how the book presents it.
- Themes
- Political violence and its consequences: Booth shoots Lincoln, believing himself a hero avenging the South’s defeat; the book says the assassination put freedom and equality in danger. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- The narrative includes a shooting, a terrible head wound, a long period before Lincoln’s death and a manhunt. These details may call for a check-in with a sensitive reader.