John Wilkes Booth and the Women who Loved him

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Sins of the father -- I've broken my promise -- Old sins cast long shadows -- They idolized him -- Young and pretty Maggie Mitchell -- This Harpers Ferry business -- The Star sisters: Helen and Lucille Western -- I cannot stoop to that which I despise -- Almost an eunuch -- Little rehearsals: Louise Wooster -- The southern marseillaise -- All for love and murder: Henrietta Irving -- My goose hangs high -- True grit -- Effie and Alice -- Imagine my helping that wounded soldier -- The most beautiful woman on the American stage -- Storming about the country is sad work -- Not a secesh -- Isabel Sumner -- A gang of misfits -- Lucy Lambert Hale -- Anything that pleases you: Ella Strr -- Assassination -- I have too great a soul to die like a criminal -- Ella Starr -- Asia and Mary All -- "It cannot be denied": Lucy Hale -- Effie Germon -- Alice Gray -- Helen Western -- Fanny Brown -- Henrietta Irving -- Maggie Mitchell -- Ada Gray -- Isabel Sumner -- Louise Wooster -- Clara Morris -- Martha Mills.
"When John Wilkes Booth died--shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln--all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée. And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg. Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth--not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now." -- Publisher's website.

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