num_pages: 200
description: Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents--more than half published here for the first time--include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth's political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination. 
language: English
title: Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writtings of John Wilkes Booth
titlecomplete: Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writtings of John Wilkes Booth
genres: Biography, History, Civil War
ratings_count: 45
publisher: University of Illinois Press