Manhunt

I just finished reading this book and I must say it was pretty badass. I'm no history buff so I'll admit that I knew just the facts about John Wilkes Booth and the assassination of President Lincoln. What I learned in reading this book really got me interested in the entire event, so much so that I've been online researching just to get more questions answered. Because the author draws from so many resources ( the bibliography itself is like 40 pages) the whole book reads like a police report. Using eye witness accounts, court testimonies, police reports, and Booth's own journal you follow the story practically day by day hour by hour. I also learned that this book is going to be made into a movie with Harrison Ford already signed up to play Sgt. Conger. It'll probably be a pretty good flick because it reads like a movie. On one hand you read a few paragraphs on Booth trying to escape after the shot and then a few on the audience going apeshit at Ford's theater and then later on Lincoln's final hours. Anyways I'm just saying it's a good book about a real historical event that literally shook the nation. If Booth and his conspirators (yes there was a conspiracy with 4 men assigned an assassination of their own) had succeeded then all of the heads of the U.S. government would have been killed giving the south the edge they needed to rally after the loss at Richmond and basically take over the entire country. To me that's pretty cool. If you need a good read I suggest it.