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    He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln
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    He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln
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    He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln

    By Don Brown

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    The headline that shocked the nation: President Lincoln Shot by Assassin John Wilkes Booth! One of the most exciting stories in American history told with full color illustrations.

    The fifth installment in Don Brown's Actual Times series featuring significant days in American history covers the Lincoln assassination and the ensuing manhunt. In He Has Shot the President! both Lincoln and Booth emerge as vivid characters, defined by the long and brutal Civil War, and set on a collision course toward tragedy. With his characteristic straightforward storytelling voice and dynamic water color illustration, Don Brown gives readers a chronological account of the events and also captures the emotion of the death of America's greatest president.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2014
    ISBN9781466864160
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    He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln
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    Don Brown

    Don Brown is the author of Thunder in the Morning Calm, The Malacca Conspiracy, The Navy Justice Series, and The Black Sea Affair, a submarine thriller that predicted the 2008 shooting war between Russia and Georgia. Don served five years in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, which gave him an exceptional vantage point into both the Navy and the inner workings "inside-the-beltway" as an action officer assigned to the Pentagon. He left active duty in 1992 to pursue private practice, but remained on inactive status through 1999, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He and his family live in North Carolina, where he pursues his passion for penning novels about the Navy. www.donbrownbooks.com Facebook: Don-Brown  

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    • 3/5
      Author/illustrator Don Brown, the creator of many works of picture-book biography and history, turns to the subject of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in this entry in the Actual Times series, which highlights momentous days in American history. On April 14, 1865, just days after the main body of the Confederate Army had surrendered, the president was attending a play at Ford's Theater, in Washington, DC. Here, actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, who had long plotted to kidnap the president, and other government officials, shot Lincoln in the back of the head, as he watched the play. What followed was the death of Lincoln, and his mourning by the nation, and the flight of Booth, who was eventually found, after one of the largest manhunts in the nation's history...He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln is the fourth title I have read from the Actual Times series, following upon America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell, Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began and Gold! Gold from the American River!: January 24, 1848: The Day the Gold Rush Began. Having found each of these other three excellent, I expected no less of this title. Unfortunately, although I do think Brown does a good job capturing the horror of that day, and its aftermath, I was less impressed with how he addressed the fallout from the assassination of Lincoln. The purpose of the Actual Times series, as I understand it, is to explore the stories of days which changed the course of American history. Part of that is describing what happened on that day, but part is to make clear what widespread changes occurred as a result of it. In the Gold Rush title, for instance, the discovery of gold set off a massive migration that changed the face of North America. Although I have not studied the subject in detail, it was my impression that the killing of Lincoln altered the path of Reconstruction, after the end of the Civil War, setting it on a far more harsh and destructive path than it might have taken, given the North's rage at the murder of a beloved leader. This had consequences, both in terms of the relations between the regions, and between the races, that were still being felt one hundred years later. I was therefore astonished to see, that although Brown did discuss the immediate aftermath of the assassination, and what happened to the conspirators, he did not devote a word to the long-term effect of Lincoln's murder on the course of the nation's history. This was a real missed opportunity, and I am at something of a loss to understand it, given the purpose of Brown's series.I would still recommend this one, as a good middle-grade book about the assassination of Lincoln and its immediate aftermath, but it does fail to live up to the promise/premise of the series, and I rated it one star less than the three titles mentioned above.
    • 4/5
      Another excellent edition to Don Brown's Actual Times series.
    • 5/5
      What can I say? This is by far my most favorite self-selected book I have read all semester. I actually read excerpts of this book in the lesson I guest lectured to seventh grade social studies students at St. Louis King of France School in Metairie, Louisiana. My mentor teacher wanted me to teach the Lincoln Assassination, even though I had suggested Reconstruction. Given that I had only a single one hour class period to strut my stuff, I decided to compromise by teaching the parts of Reconstruction leading up to Lincoln's assassination, and concluding my lesson by reading this book about Lincoln's assassination out loud to the seventh grade students I had. Throughout the entirety of my reading, I had the students hooked as well as my mentor teacher. There were no eyes fixed on windows or heads buried in desks. After my reading of this book, my mentor teacher actually approached me and asked me the author's name and the title of the book. Hopefully he was inspired to use this book in the future. Don Brown, this book's author, has no qualms bringing history to life. It seemed like he really enjoyed prying into the mind of Lincoln's madman assassin, John Wilkes Booth. This book has all the drama of a Shakespearean play yet also stays faithful to what actually happened on that fateful day. In my opinion, the imbibing of the best qualities of fiction into works of nonfiction (while making sure the book remains a work of nonfiction and doesn't approach fiction) is one surefire mark of a great nonfiction author. I don't know if this book has won any awards, but for me, I would rate the book ten stars if LibraryThing would allow me to. After all, since I used this book in my very first classroom teaching experience, I will remember it forever, and that is no exaggeration.
    • 4/5
      Lincoln is shot by a well known actor, John Wilkes Booth. This story goes beyond the actual assassination and the reader learns about the kidnapping gang, and the goose chase the police went through to find the killer. It shows a different perspective and I learned a lot i did not know already. This book would be great when teaching about Lincoln and this unfortunate event.
    • 5/5
      This was an amazing book! It focuses on the assassination of the president. The books goes into detail on the events that led up to the murder of President Lincoln. I learned for the first time that John Wilkes Booth did not act alone. The book describes everyone who was involved. The illustrations are amazing. The way the author wrote the book, makes you feel like you were living through all this. I would use this in a social studies class when teaching about the Civil War or abolition. Recommended for grades 3-6
    • 4/5
      This non-fiction book is not a normal book about the assassination of President Lincoln. It is based upon the person who killed President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth. It was a very interesting book to read and I would highly recommend it to any reader who enjoys reading and learning about history. I learned many things from reading this book. I did not know that John Wilkes Booth was not working alone when he planned to kill the President. I also learned that other government officials were shot the same day the President Lincoln was killed. The author wrote this book in a language that young readers would be able to understand and read alone. The illustrator, who is also the author, drew beautiful pictures that were so realistic. This would be a great book to read to students when discussing former Presidents.
    • 4/5
      To be sure, any book about the Lincoln assassination is going to grab kid's attention, and Brown's book is both well written and engagingly illustrated with vintage Brown watercolors. If you've read a lot about the assassination, there may not be anything new here, but you'll be reminded of eerie details, like John Wilkes Booth's stopping off at Ford's theater in the morning as it "was a place he could relax and gossip" and found out that Lincoln would be attending the performance. Booth had a failed plan in 1864 to kidnap the president: now his plan was to kill him. The book details the rest of the plans–that a crony would kill Secretary of State, William Seward (he was injured but not killed) and another crony would kill Andrew Johnson but Booth's counterpart got drunk instead and never carried out that plan. The book traces the event from the morning of April 9, 1865 through Lincoln's death, the country's response ("By the time Lincoln reached Springfield, one in four of all Americans had paid their respects"), to the capture and killing of Booth. Brown acknowledges three sources in the bibliography, all fairly recent. He didn't unfortunately, consult Candace Fleming's book about the Lincolns, so yet again there is the absence of what happened to Mary Lincoln at her husband's bedside while he died. (She was denied permission to be there). Since Fleming's careful research revealed this fact, it's a disappointment that Brown didn't dig deep enough to find this and report it.