American Gothic

A New York Times –bestselling author’s “lively” account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln ( The New Yorker ). 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 , bests