Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-01 Pages: 667 Language: English Publisher: Vintage Books From the author of the bestsellers The Emperor of Ocean Park and New England White. an electrifying and provocative historical novel set in an alternate history in which Abraham Lincoln survives assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14. 1865. In this gripping legal and political thriller. Stephen L. Carter imagines what might have happened if Lincoln had lived to face the tumultuous post-war politics of 1865 Washington. DC. including an impeachment trial for overstepping his Constitutional authority during the Civil War. At the novel's center is Abigail Canner. a young black woman recently graduated from Oberlin. who is hired by the DC law firm that is working on Lincoln's defense. When one of Lincoln's lead lawyers is found brutally murdered. Abigail is plunged into a web of intrigue. p...
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"Carter is a masterly novelist. . . . Carter makes the setting seem true, creating as real an immediate postwar Washington as Gore Vidal's wartime Washington in Lincoln. He has also created an interesting Zelig-like character in the free young black woman Abigail Canner."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. He is also the author of seven books of nonfiction.
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