590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1)
August 10, 2025
Description
After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did president Abraham Lincoln - recently re-elected - do next to inflame his detractors? Crippled with...
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Books Referenced
Abraham Lincoln: A Life
Author: Michael Burlingame
Context:
Described as Lincoln's biographer who wrote a genuinely 10,000-page biography, so long that much of it was cut and put online. Referenced multiple times for details about Lincoln's life, Mary Todd Lincoln, and the Caesar assassination analogy popular at the time.
Lincoln in the Bardo
Author: George Saunders
Context:
Tom Holland mentions knowing about Mary Todd Lincoln from reading George Saunders's novel, saying it made him more sympathetic toward her.