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Scarce early issue. No date; circa 1960. First published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1937. Stated at back board: "Grosset's Universal Library. Printed Complete, On Permanent Book Paper from the Readable Type of the First Edition." Bright pictorial full cloth boards in white and blue, moderate shelf wear, rub; classic cover titles with geometric design of three squares and one solid orange circle. Partial page maps and document imagery throughout. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Appears as a durable library bind. Otto Eisenschiml was an independent American history scholar, with an incredible interest in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. He began researching the murder in 1928 and was dissatisfied with the prevailing historical account that John Wilkes Booth was the mastermind. In 1937, Eisenschiml succeeded in having this book published and was able to present incongruities of the simplistic lone gunman story. It was unsurprisingly greeted with a furor by leading establishment historians. Otto postulates that Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton plotted to have Lincoln killed due to marked differences of opinion and objectives. Eisenschiml utilizes circumstantial evidence to build his case, especialling that fact of Stanton's hiring of a bodyguard named John Parker to protect the president. This individual assigned to protect Lincoln was conspicuously absent when Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater. Eisenschiml also theorizes that Secretary of War Stanton deliberately left a key bridge crossing the Anacostia river open allowing egress from Washington D. C. when the capitol was supposed to be locked down. This was the bridge Booth used to escape. Stanton also ordered Booth to be shot and killed by the Union Army thus ending further discovery from him. Eisenschiml further postulates that Stanton likely tore several incriminating pages from Booth's diary. This book sparked other books, theories, and films on the assassination and his explanations have become known as the "Eisenschiml Thesis." Contents: "Smudges (Preface); I. The Fourteenth of April; II. Assassination; III. The Strange Career of John F. Parker; IV. What Really Happened at Ford's Theater; V. The President Is Refused Protection; VI. Premonitions vs. Secret Service Reports; VII. Grant Suddenly Leaves Washington; VIII. How the News of the Tragedy was Handled; IX. Every Avenue of Escape Blocked - Save One; X. The Man Hunt Is On!; XI. John Fletcher Tells His Story; XII. Baker Directs the Pursuit; XIII. The End of the Trail; XIV. Death Visits Garrett's Farm; XV. The Plots Against Grant, Stanton and Johnson; XVI. Stanton Invents a Novel Torture; XVII. Stanton's Inner Council; XVIII. The Odyssey of John Harrison Surratt; XIX. The Case Against Jefferson Davis; XX. The Setting for the Conspiracy Trial; XXI. The Prisoners at the Bar; XXII. The Woman in the Case; XXIII. The Conspirators Who Went Free; XXIV. Not Wanted - Victory in the East; XXV. Not Wanted - Victory in the West; XXVI. The Case Against the Radicals; XXVII. The Case Against John Wilkes Booth; XXVIII. The Case Against Andrew Johnson; XXIX. The Case Against Stanton; Conclusion; Supplementary Notes; Acknowledgments; and, an Index." With a detailed 12-page index. Printed in the United States of America. 503 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 022681
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