A finger in Lincoln's brain
Subtitle: what modern science reveals about Lincoln, his assassination, and its aftermath
By: E. Lawrence Abel
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781440831188; 9781440831195
Subjects: Assassination
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: A target on his back; title: A fever in the blood; title: For want of a nail; title: A lucky shot?; title: A story too good to fact check; title: Deathbed vigil; title: We traced the wound; title: Ballistics: the science of Lincoln's gunshot wound; title: Did Lincoln's doctors doom him?; title: Embalming Lincoln; title: We mourn a father slain; title: The politics of death; title: Binding up the nation's wounds; title: Death will not be cheated; title: "Now he belongs to the ages"; title: There will be blood; title: "Not so black and shiney as it was long ago".