My Thoughts Be Bloody : The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy (CD-Audio)

from JEB5

A thorough examination of the relationship between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth that exposes the dynamic and competitiveness that led to John Wilkes assassination of President Lincoln. I was amazed at how important Edwin Booth was to the history of acting and for his influence on art and politics,...

from oldman

An in depth study of the family of John Wilkes Booth the assassin of Lincoln. The premise of the story is that the rivalry that developed between John and Edwin, one of John's older brothers lead to the assassionation. Their rivalry seemed to be all-pervasive, On the stage, in the family and poli...

from torrey23

This was an interesting book. It delved into the lives of John Wilkes Booth, his father, his brother, and the rest of his family. It outlines the contentions between the successful Edwin Booth and the unssuccessful John Wilkes Booth. Rather than a memoir on the life of John Wilkes Both, it was an...

from EricKibler

Titone does a great job at telling a true story about Shakespearean actors which in itself would be a worthy subject for one of the Bard's plays. She deconstructs the sibling rivalry between John Wilkes Booth and his brother Edwin. Edwin was the DeNiro of his day, both in looks and in his influen...

from DinadansFriend

A group biography, dealing with two generations of the Booth family. They were very prominent in the American Theatre of the Nineteenth Century. Junius Brutus Booth was a rising actor in England but ran off to the USA with a flower girl and theatrical costumer leaving a wife and a son behind in L...