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Title: Dark Union: The Secret Web of Profiteers, Politicians, and Booth Conspirators That Led to Lincoln's Death by Leonard F. Guttridge, Ray A. Neff, Ray D. Neff ISBN: 0-471-26481-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Don't believe a gullible critic
Comment: Tom Thatcher has obviously read the recent North & South article slamming this very good book, although he uses that article's arguments as if they were his own. He also fails to note that the authors of that article, Ed Steers and Joan Chaconas, are hardly unbiased individuals: Steers has the arguments of his own book to protect, while Chaconas, who works at the Surrat Museum, has her job and myths that enable it to protect. Nor does Thatcher note that the article was based on a brief and hardly thorough review of Neff and Guttridge's extensive evidence. Instead he says--and it's possible at this point to speculate that he didn't even read this book--that Neff and Guttridge can't get their facts straight, whereas it's clear that Thatcher can't get his straight. I would recommend you read the book and decide for yourself.
Rating: 1
Summary: Only for the gullible
Comment: The conspiracy claims made by this book are based entirely on documents that exist only as typed copies--the originals are destroyed or missing. There is no way to confirm their reliability, or even their existence. If that's all it takes to publish a history book, then I intend to "discover" a typed copy of the secret diary of Mary Magdalene, "proving" that the apostles stole Jesus' body to create a resurrection myth, but that just after I made the typed copy the original was destroyed (but the typed copy is just as reliable).
Further, the person who allegedly collected the original documents does not seem to exist independently of the collection. (He can't be found in the payroll records of the government department he allegedly worked for, or in the census records for any of the places he was born and lived, for example).
As if relying on questionable documents was not enough, the authors also make sloppy mistakes with what evidence they do have. For example, they claim that a wanted poster shows one of Booth's conspirators in shackles, proving that he had already been arrested and a plot was underway to make it look otherwise. But that poster was a souvenir version printed in 1867, using different photographs than the original wanted poster! Another man who was supposedly killed by the conspirators, with his family left wondering about his fate, in fact returned home to his family and died on the family farm the next year.
If you believe that big business is evil and there are secret government conspiracies everywhere, then this book, based on typed copies of documents that do not exist collected by a spy who never existed, is perfect for you.
Rating: 1
Summary: Spurious sources+nonexistant reasoning=Bad history
Comment: This twaddle isn't worth the match required to burn it. Not a single source can be verified in the original.
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Title: Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy by H. Donald Winkler ISBN: 1581823428 Publisher: Cumberland House Pub. Date: 27 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Shadow of the Sentinel: One Man's Quest to Find the Hidden Treasure of the Confederacy by Warren Getler, Bob Brewer ISBN: 0743219686 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home by Matthew Pinsker ISBN: 0195162064 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr. ISBN: 0813122171 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators by Edward Steers, Edward Steers Jr, Terry Alford, Burrus Carnahan ISBN: 0813122775 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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