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Picador
August 1995
On Sale: August 15, 1995
368 pages
ISBN: 0312135084
EAN: 9780312135089
Paperback (reprint)
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Historical
Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris were engaged to be married,
when they were invited to share the Presidential box with
the Lincolns at Ford's Theater on the evening of Good
Friday, 1865. When John Wilkes Booth crept into the box, the
young couple became witnesses to a central tragedy in
American history. But Lincoln's assassination is only one
part of this novel--for in researching the lives of Henry
and Clara Rathbone, Mallon uncovered an even more dramatic
story of passion, scandal, heroism, murder, and madness.
Imaginatively re-creating their lives, he tells the larger
story of nineteenth-century Victorian America: a society
structured above suppressed impulses and undercurrents that
grew stronger as the century progressed.
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