The Day Lincoln Was Shot: A Hour-by-Hour Account of What Really Happened on April 14, 1865

Name: The Day Lincoln Was Shot: A Hour-by-Hour Account of What Really Happened on April 14, 1865
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Rating: 4.7 (229 reviews)
Author: Jim Bishop

by Jim Bishop

Biography Memoir

4.7 (229)

4.7 stars from 229 reviews

308 pages~5.1 hr readPublished by Gramercy BooksPublished 1955-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You love history that grips you like a crime novel, with forensic detail and narrative tension rather than dusty scholarly prose.
You're fascinated by pivotal historical moments and want to understand the human reality of them, not just the broad strokes.
You appreciate journalism that does the legwork to piece together exactly what happened, when, and why it matters.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer big-picture historical analysis over granular scene-setting and moment-to-moment reconstruction.
You want scholarly debate about Lincoln's legacy or the political context of Reconstruction, not a focused chronicle of one day.
You're looking for a balanced examination of Booth's motivations and ideology; this is Lincoln-centred and dramatic, not analytical.

About this book

The Day Lincoln Was Shot is an hour-by-hour account of April 14, 1865, the day President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Jim Bishop chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth throughout that day, from 7:00 A.M. Friday until 7:22 A.M. Saturday, the moment of Lincoln's death. First published in 1955, the book combines historical research with narrative storytelling to document the events of the assassination. Bishop, an author and journalist, presents the account with immediacy and detail, drawing on factual records to reconstruct the day's events.

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