John H. Rhodehamel
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The author identifies John Wilkes Booth's primary motivation for killing Abraham Lincoln as a growing commitment to white supremacy as an ideology rather than as a political loyalty to the Confederacy. Through alternate chapters, the author shows how Lincoln's increasing acceptance of emancipation and racial equality exacerbated Booth's hatred for Lincoln"--
2) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 91
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English