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Author | : Stephen M. Archer |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2010-08-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809385929 |
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In this, the first thoroughly researched scholarly biography of British actor Junius Brutus Booth, Stephen M. Archer reveals Booth to have been an artist of considerable range and a man of sensitivity and intellect. Archer provides a clear account of Booth’s professional and personal life and places him in relationship to his contemporaries, particularly Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. From 1817 to 1852 Junius Brutus Booth toured throughout North America, enjoying a reputation as the most distinguished Shakespearean tragedian on the American continent. Still, he yearned for success on the British stage, a goal he never attained. His public image as a drunken, dangerous lunatic obscured a private life filled with the richness of a close and loyal family. The worldwide fame assured for the Booth family of actors by John Wilkes Booth’s bone-shattering leap from the President’s box had eluded Junius Brutus Booth throughout his lifelong exile in America. But from that event until today, no American family of actors has stimulated such scrutiny as the Booths. Eight years of research, pursuing Booth from Amsterdam to San Francisco, has resulted in an accurate, fascinating narrative that both records and illuminates the actor’s life.
Author | : Junius Brutus Booth |
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Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Actors |
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Undated autograph (signed J.B. Booth) on a card stock (6 x 9 cm), mounted on a larger sheet.
Author | : Junius Brutus Booth |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Actors |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Theater |
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Download Junius Brutus Booth, the Elder ; Junius Brutus Booth, the Younger ; Edwin Booth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Nora Titone |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416586164 |
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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 | : Asia Booth |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752578181 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Author | : Terry Alford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195054121 |
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When John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, his friends were stunned--not only by the murder but by the thought that someone they knew as fantastically gifted, successful and kind-hearted could commit such a crime. Fortune's Fool, the first biography of Booth ever written, is the life story of this talented and troubling individual.
Author | : Asia Booth Clarke |
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Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : Junius Brutus Booth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : afterwards CLARKE BOOTH (Asia Frigga) |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Download Booth Memorials. Passages, Incidents, and Anecdotes in the Life of Junius Brutus Booth, the Elder. By His Daughter. [With a Portrait.]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle