Nora Titone: My Thoughts Be Bloody October 28, 2010

Author Laura Titone will discuss this provocative new look at the motive behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the bitter sibling rivalry that led John Wilkes Booth to murder him. Every American knows the literal story of what happened in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865: Lincoln was shot by a second-rate actor, John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged at the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. But Nora Titone, a brilliant young historian, has uncovered a hidden history, buried until now in private letters, journals, and reminiscences of the Booth family, that will captivate all readers of American history and electrify the historical debate.