Author: Walter Moore Leman
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Walter Leman was a native of Boston, and began his career as a journeyman actor there, at the Tremont Theatre, aged 17. He appeared most frequently in his home town, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and post gold rush California. In this book he describes his youthful enthusiasm for theater, and the notables with whom he acted. As was typical of the time, he appeared in a wide range of contemporary and classic works. His memories are colorful, and his reminiscences of his colleagues are warm and complimentary. An engaging peek into the workings of the theatre and the professional actors milieu during the 19th century.
Author: Jean-Louis Barrault
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Walter M. Leman
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ISBN: 9783348046121
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Arthur Hobson Quinn
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Author: Ohio State University
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Perley Isaac Reed
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Arthur Hobson Quinn
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Author: Anton Roman
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ISBN: 9783348029391
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Nora Titone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416586164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history. The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.
Author: George Gebbie
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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