In the Houses of Their Dead

"Here is Lincoln in the Bardofor real. You couldn't make it upnecromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President." Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham LincolnThe story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth.

In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meetand yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President Abraham Lincoln, in the most significant assassination in American history. The murder, however, did not come without warningin fact, it had been foretold.

In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written...