Review: An hour by hour account of Lincoln's last day.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
JoeDanDonigiOne of the best biographies I've ever read.  Lincoln only plays a small part in this book, the other "actors" in this drama play a more important part.  A true tragedy in the Shakespearean sense of the term.  The author, John Charles Berry, truly let's us see what John Wilkes Boothe was really struggling to come to terms with himself.  Boothe obviously had a sense of righteous anger about the assassination of Lincoln, but the crazies often do.  I sense the loss on all the people surrounding Lincoln, Mary Todd, Stanton, U.S. Grant, (who was supposed to go the theater that night but didn't).  Boothe and his Confederates-literally confederates and all the other "actors" in this drama not the least of which is John Wilkes and Dr. Mudd.  Considering all Dr. Mudd did to help Lincoln I'm not so sure it couldn't be called reckless behavior, but I digress.  Like Ronald Reagan said, about Tom Clancy, (In the Hunt for Red October), I paraphrase slightly "This is a rip roaring good yarn.", about Lincoln's last day.  This truly is a 5-plus star read.Photoman35mm