The Mad Booths of Maryland by Stanley Kimmel. Excellent biography of this fascinating clan. An American Tragedy by Elizabeth Steger Trindal. Pleads the case for innocence of Mrs. Surratt. Pulitzer Prize winner on Washington City society of the time.
Last chapters give a general survey of the assassination.
The Writings of John Wilkes Booth edited by John Rhodebamel and Louise Taper. Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator edited by Michael W. Kauffman. Twenty Days by Dorothy and Philip Kunhardt. Good pictorial narrative of the dark days after the assassination. One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts by Timothy S. Good.