CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Hour Of Peril March 23, 2014
A divisive and polarizing effect on the population very unlike the perfect harmony and civility of our present day. So over a period of 13 days as lincoln is making his way by train from his home in springfield, illinois, to washington, d. C. For his inauguration as president , the air is filled with rumors of an assassination plot. In maryland where his train will pass below the Mason Dixon Line for the first time, there are rumors that hell be shot or hell be stabbed, or his train will be blown up at a whistlestop appearance in baltimore. Allen pinkerton of the legendary Pinkerton Detective ...
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