In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1631495607 ISBN13: 9781631495601 Release Date: June 2022 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation Length: 320 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2" In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet--and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warning--in fact, it had been foretold. In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president's fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him. Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational, empirically-minded man, yet as acclaimed scholar and biographer Terry