Mourning Lincoln
Written by Martha Hodes
Narrated by Donna Postel
4/5
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Martha Hodes
Martha Hodes is professor of history at New York University. She is the author of the award-winning books Mourning Lincoln; The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century; and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. She has presented her scholarship around the world and is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, the Whiting Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
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Reviews for Mourning Lincoln
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is an interesting book with a lot of research behind it. Unfortunately, it becomes repetitive in the second half, and at times Hodes belabors the obvious. (People's grief over Lincoln's death was often overshadowed by grief for their lost loved ones -- who would have guessed?) For a general audience, as opposed to an academic one, it might have been a tighter and more effective book at half the length.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author carefully searched for personal diaries, journals and letters to discover more about the reactions and feelings about Lincoln's assassination. Combining two major examples from each side of the American Civil War and countless other sources, we can discover the people's reactions, not just the public accounts. Although often portrayed as universal mourning, similar to the mood after Kennedy's assassination, the truth is far from that. The book is well researched and written and fills us in with historic details about the assassination various other plots, the fate of the convicted conspirators and the nation (or nations if you prefer). As the author notes, there are thousands of other sources available but in order to get the book written, he needed to arbitrarily decide when to stop reading and start writing.
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