What Your Teachers Got Wrong About Lincoln’s Killer

The first thing he shouted was NOT, ‘Sic semper tyrannis’

Janice Harayda

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Detail from the cover of “Manhunt” / Credit: HarperCollins

Abraham Lincoln has inspired more good books than any U.S. president, and not just because historians tend to rank him higher even than George Washington. Photography was coming of age when Lincoln took office, and photographers like Mathew Brady and his associates captured…

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Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.