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1) American gothic: the story of America's legendary theatrical family -- Junius, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth

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Smith, Gene

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

c1992

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The dramatic biography of one of the most notorious families in American history. Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America's most famous theatrical family. Yet the Booth name is forever etched in the history books for one terrible reason: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. In American Gothic, bestselling historian Gene Smith vividly chronicles...

2) Lee and Grant, a dual biography

Author

Smith, Gene

Publisher

McGraw-Hill

Pub. Date

c1984

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An enthralling and richly detailed biography of two gifted military commanders who changed the course of American history. Their names are forever linked in the history of the Civil War, but Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant could not have been more dissimilar. Lee came from a world of Southern gentility and aristocratic privilege while Grant had coarser, more common roots in the Midwest. As a young officer trained in the classic mold, Lee graduated...