My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy By Nora Titone

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The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect of black citizenship. Yet who Booth really was—besides a killer—is less well known. The magnitude of his crime has obscured for generations a startling personal story that was integral to his motivation. My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was in his day the biggest star of the American stage. He won his celebrity at the precocious age of nineteen, before the Civil War began, when John Wilkes was a schoolboy. Without an account of Edwin Booth, author Nora Titone argues, the real story of Lincoln’s assassin has never been told. Using an array of private letters, diaries, and reminiscences of the Booth family, Titone has uncovered a hidden history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Booth became this country’s most notorious assassin. These ambitious brothers, born to theatrical parents, enacted a tale of mutual jealousy and resentment worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy. From childhood, the stage-struck brothers were rivals for the approval of their father, legendary British actor Junius Brutus Booth. After his death, Edwin and John Wilkes were locked in a fierce contest to claim his legacy of fame. This strange family history and powerful sibling rivalry were the crucibles of John Wilkes’s character, exacerbating his political passions and driving him into a life of conspiracy. To re-create the lost world of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, this book takes readers on a panoramic tour of nineteenth-century America, from the streets of 1840s Baltimore to the gold fields of California, from the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama to the glittering mansions of Gilded Age New York. Edwin, ruthlessly competitive and gifted, did everything he could to lock his younger brother out of the theatrical game. As he came of age, John Wilkes found his plans for stardom thwarted by his older sibling’s meteoric rise. Their divergent paths—Edwin’s an upward race to riches and social prominence, and John’s a downward spiral into failure and obscurity—kept pace with the hardening of their opposite political views and their mutual dislike. The details of the conspiracy to kill Lincoln have been well documented elsewhere. My Thoughts Be Bloody tells a new story, one that explains for the first time why Lincoln’s assassin decided to conspire against the president in the first place, and sets that decision in the context of a bitterly divided family—and nation. By the end of this riveting journey, readers will see Abraham Lincoln’s death less as the result of the war between the North and South and more as the climax of a dark struggle between two brothers who never wore the uniform of soldiers, except on stage.

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Of course, every family, no matter how loving, how unified, is dyfunctional--it is just a matter of to what degree, for people themselves are imperfect. The Booth family was no exception. This book also reinforces the phrase "mad genius," as is so evident by the behavior of the amazingly gifted famiy patriarch Junius Brutus Booth, whose "madness" was fueled by a combination of perfectionalism and alcoholism. The story of how Edwin, at age 12, as delegated to become his traveling-actor-father's shadow, holding him together, keeping him from drinking too much and missing shows, reminded me vividly of the comic movie "My Favorite Year." (Another good selection to consider purchasing on Amazon!) Edwin's early life, though, was no comedy; in his recollection, "my childhood ended at twelve." This boy posessed the same vast talent as his troubled father, unlike the handsomer, charming John Wilkes, one of Edwin's younger brothers--John Wilkes, who had no talent but who posessed dreams of great deeds and heroic feats of armored knights--John Wilkes,who came to harbor a great jealousy and resentment towards his older brother. Other fascinating characters and facts are included in this book. Before I read it, I had always wondered about how it was for John Wilkes' family in light of what he did...and who were his family, anyway? His mother, his sister, especially; such interesting personalities, all brought to new life in this wonderful book...but you are going to have to read it yourself to find out more about them, and about the cottage deep in the woods where for years Junius Booth had to keep them hidden...wow! For anyone interested in human nature, family functioning, Civil War, history, great writing...buy this book! You will certainly not be disappointed! Highly recommended!

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