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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
This list of books are my personal favorites for a variety of reasons. I’m sure this list will continue to grow, so check back often.
Books are listed alphabetically and are not listed by my personal preference.
Most of these books are still available, either from your favorite bookseller, or internet websites, such as eBay and Amazon.com.
Alias “Paine”: Lewis Thornton Powell, the Mystery Man of the Lincoln Conspiracy
by Betty J. Ownsbey
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
by Michael W. Kauffman
The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
by Kate Clifford Larson
Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
by Thomas Reed Turner
Blood on the Moon
by Edward Steers, Jr. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination
by John E. McHale, Jr.
The Great American Myth
by George Bryan
Lincoln’s Assassins
by Daniel Weinberg and James Swanson
Lincoln’s Assassin’s: A Complete Account of Their Capture, Trial, and Punishment
by Roy Z. Chamlee Jr. 2 Volume set
The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence
compiled by Bill Edwards and Dr. Edward Steers, Jr.
The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies
by William H. Hanchett
Mary Elizabeth Surratt: An American Tragedy
by Elizabeth Steger Trindal
Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator: Samuel Bland Arnold
edited by Michael W. Kauffman
The Conspiracy Trial For the Murder of the President
edited by Benjamin Perley Poore 3 Vol., Arno Press
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
by Jim Bishop
The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as
Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
edited by Edward Steers Jr. and Harold Holzer
The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and Trial of the Conspirators.
A special edition as arranged in 1865 by Benn Pitman
Edited by Edward Steers
The Web of Conspiracy
by Theodore Roscoe