This memoir by a pre-eminent journalist is written with such style, liveliness, and insight 鈥� in addition to enviable access 鈥� that the reader feels like an eavesdropper in the private quarters of the White House, vicariously present in the streets of wartime Washington. This riveting book has a marvelous anecdote about Lincoln鈥檚 unpretentiousness. One morning Brooks greeted the president, who stood by the front gate looking anxiously down the street. 鈥淕ood morning,鈥� said Lincoln. 鈥淚 am looking for a newsboy. When you get to that corner I wish you would start one up this way.鈥�
鈥� Anthony Pitch, "'They Have Killed Papa Dead!': The Road to Ford鈥檚 Theatre, Abraham Lincoln鈥檚 Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance."
(Read my review of Pitch's book here.)
