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This family epic about the man who shot Abraham Lincoln spotlights America’s national story and the horrors of slavery, says Elizabeth Lowry

This family epic about the man who shot Abraham Lincoln spotlights America’s national story and the horrors of slavery

How John Wilkes Booth – the sexy, unhinged scion of a show-business dynasty – ended up playing the villain in a real-life tragedy

the president, the actor was not at all surprised. he said the intelligence hit him on the forehead like a hammer. he wrote, my mind accepted the fact at once. i thought to myself that my brother was capable of just such an action. his brother's murder of lincoln was devastating to edwin, but the reactions he records in his letters seem to speak less of the blow to the union than of the blow to the actor himself. oh where has my glory gone, edwin wrote in the agony. i have been blasted in my hopes by a villain. edwin vowed to quit acting forever in penance for his brother's crime. in...