In the Houses of Their Dead Audiobook Libro.fm

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In the 1820s two families unknown to each other worked on farms in the American wilderness It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meetand yet they did The son of one family the famed actor John Wilkes Booth killed the son of the other President Abraham Lincoln in the most significant assassination in American history The murder however did not come without warningin fact it had been foretold

In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the presidents fascination with Spiritualism and to demonstrate how it linked him uncannily to the man who would kill him Abraham Lincoln is usually seen as a rational empiricallyminded man yet as biographer Terry Alford reveals he was also deeply superstitious and drawn to the irrational Like millions of other Americans including the Booths Lincoln and his wife Mary suffered repeated personal tragedies and turned for solace to Spiritualism a new practice sweeping the nation that held that the dead were nearby and could be contacted by the living Remarkably the Lincolns and the Booths even used the same mediums including Charles Colchester a specialist in blood writing whom Mary first brought to her husband and who warned the president after listening to the ravings of another of his clients John Wilkes Booth