Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin's Accomplice tells the gripping story of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through experience of its only female participant. Confederate sympathizer Mary Surratt ran a boarding house in Washington, and the depth of her complicity in the murder of President Lincoln has been debated since she was arrested on April 17, 1865. Calling upon long-lost interviews, confessions, and court testimony, historian Kate Clifford Larson magnificently captures how Surratt's actions defied nineteenth-century norms of piety and allegiance. A riveting account of espionage and murder, The Assassin's Accomplice offers a revealing examination of America's most remembered assassination.
- ISBN10 0465018939
- ISBN13 9780465018932
- Publish Date 23 March 2010 (first published 3 June 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 August 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Basic Books
- Edition First Trade Paper Edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English