Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writtings of John Wilkes Booth

Superbly edited and annotated, this collection of the writings of John Wilkes Booth constitutes a major new primary source that contributes to scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and nineteenth-century theater history. The nearly seventy documents–more than half published here for the first time–include love letters written during the summer of 1864, when Booth was conspiring against Lincoln, explicit statements of Booth’s political convictions, and the diary he kept during his futile twelve-day flight after the assassination.