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Title: Lincoln's Assassin
Subtitle: The Unsolicited Confessions of John Wilkes Booth
Author: J. F. Pennington
Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-02-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
A riveting, fictionalized confessional of John Wilkes Booth that evokes a world of conspiracy, political duplicity, and theatricality.
In 1890 actor John Wilkes Booth - long presumed dead - emerged from 25 years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.
After shooting President Abraham Lincoln, Booth fled into the night, and government reports claimed he was killed 12 days later. But the man who was shot in the head and burned in a tobacco-shed fire before being covertly transported to Washington was never fully identified. Friends, as well as members of America's premier family of the theatre, of which he was a member, were barred from even viewing the body - the only photograph taken of the corpse was never printed and then lost, and a strangely ceremonious martial court presided over a secret burial. Rumor immediately began to circulate: Booth was still alive.
In Lincoln's Assassin, Jeffrey Pennington presents Booth's own story of flight and return, detailing how another was shot in his place as he escaped to nominal freedom and obscurity, leaving behind all his personal belongings and the stage life he once knew. The larger conspiracy in which he was embroiled is unpicked in stylish fashion, exploring the political landscape in which Lincoln lived and died. Written in a confessional style, it aims to offer an insight into the true motivations at the heart of the Lincoln assassination, an event that continues to be the subject of much theorizing and interest.
Members Reviews:
Booth should have stayed dead
What was this? A mishmash of ramblings by an author.
Dialogue Heavy Book Misfires & Meanders. Audiobook's Cartoony Accents Laughable
Meager (if any) traditional "plot". I can't believe I even listened all the way through! J. F. Pennington should have written this as a stage or screenplay cuz almost 90% of it is dialogue (which often leads nowhere.) And sometimes the author inserts highbrow vocabulary words in places that don't belong & stick out like a sore thumb. Perhaps if I were reading instead of listening it wouldn't have been as obnoxious but the Over-The-Top audiobook narrator (Bernard Setaro Clark) added way too many voices throughout. It was both distracting and humorous (when it wasn't supposed to be.) For example, one of the characters had a "Cajun accent" but the narrator voiced him in a rumbling Russian (Boris from Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon) type accent. How laughable, like listening to Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 70's. (A little bit of that goes a longggggg way.) This book has glimmers of listenability but unsustainable overall. There are scores of far Better Lincoln-Booth books out there so skip this one.
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Title: Lincoln's Assassin
Subtitle: The Unsolicited Confessions of John Wilkes Booth
Author: J. F. Pennington
Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-02-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
A riveting, fictionalized confessional of John Wilkes Booth that evokes a world of conspiracy, political duplicity, and theatricality.
In 1890 actor John Wilkes Booth - long presumed dead - emerged from 25 years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity.
After shooting President Abraham Lincoln, Booth fled into the night, and government reports claimed he was killed 12 days later. But the man who was shot in the head and burned in a tobacco-shed fire before being covertly transported to Washington was never fully identified. Friends, as well as members of America's premier family of the theatre, of which he was a member, were barred from even viewing the body - the only photograph taken of the corpse was never printed and then lost, and a strangely ceremonious martial court presided over a secret burial. Rumor immediately began to circulate: Booth was still alive.
In Lincoln's Assassin, Jeffrey Pennington presents Booth's own story of flight and return, detailing how another was shot in his place as he escaped to nominal freedom and obscurity, leaving behind all his personal belongings and the stage life he once knew. The larger conspiracy in which he was embroiled is unpicked in stylish fashion, exploring the political landscape in which Lincoln lived and died. Written in a confessional style, it aims to offer an insight into the true motivations at the heart of the Lincoln assassination, an event that continues to be the subject of much theorizing and interest.
Members Reviews:
Booth should have stayed dead
What was this? A mishmash of ramblings by an author.
Dialogue Heavy Book Misfires & Meanders. Audiobook's Cartoony Accents Laughable
Meager (if any) traditional "plot". I can't believe I even listened all the way through! J. F. Pennington should have written this as a stage or screenplay cuz almost 90% of it is dialogue (which often leads nowhere.) And sometimes the author inserts highbrow vocabulary words in places that don't belong & stick out like a sore thumb. Perhaps if I were reading instead of listening it wouldn't have been as obnoxious but the Over-The-Top audiobook narrator (Bernard Setaro Clark) added way too many voices throughout. It was both distracting and humorous (when it wasn't supposed to be.) For example, one of the characters had a "Cajun accent" but the narrator voiced him in a rumbling Russian (Boris from Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon) type accent. How laughable, like listening to Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 70's. (A little bit of that goes a longggggg way.) This book has glimmers of listenability but unsustainable overall. There are scores of far Better Lincoln-Booth books out there so skip this one.