Myth, Memory and a Mummy.
Evans. Did John Wilkes Booth escape capture? For many years, a sideshow attraction purported to be the mummified corpse of Lincoln's assassin. This book traces the legend's development, assesses the motivations in both Southern and Northern cultures that made proliferation of the legend possible as well as profitable, and concludes by examining the legend's persistence in present-day America, the mummy's ironic fate, and the recent efforts to exhume Booth's remains. 224 pages, 15 B&W photographs, 6"x 9", hardcover. #0C10687
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