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Features a biographical sketch of the American actor John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865). Notes that Booth shot and killed the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April

Her brothers were the matinee idols of the 1850's theater world; her father was a famous Shakespearean; she wanted to be an actress but the social rules of the

Though written during her exile in England, from which she would not return until her death, Asia Booth Clarke's memoir of her famous brother was not published

A thoughtful, multigenerational story of contested motherhood, equal parts biography, oral history, history, and memoir