Mourning Lincoln
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As the audiobook opens, narrator Donna Postel re-creates the dialogue from the stage of Ford's Theatre as President Lincoln sits in the audience. Soon, she immerses listeners in the charged atmosphere right after the infamous shooting of the president by John Wilkes Booth. The sense of shock and sadness in her voice helps listeners relate the tragedy to modern ones such as the World Trade Center attack and President Kennedy's assassination. The author concentrates on "a profusion of real-time sentiments," as written in 1865. She also considers aspects such as the slow flow of the news and the collection of relics associated with the death, gradually expanding those sentiments and observations into an audiobook portrait of a divided post-Civil War America. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
April 1, 2016
Coming just days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, 1865, stunned the divided nation. In a thorough examination of contemporary diaries, letters, and other personal writings, historian Hodes (The Sea Captain's Wife) explores the varied reactions the event elicited in the spring and summer of that year. In the North, the relief and jubilation that came with victory was abruptly replaced with shock and mourning, while in the South, grief and despair over the loss of the war gave way in some quarters to smug satisfaction over what was viewed as an act of righteous vengeance; among newly liberated African Americans, grief was mixed with anxiety and dismay about the future. Along the way, Hodes lays bare the extraordinary level of personal and social devastation wrought by a war that touched nearly every American. The narration by voice actress Donna Postel is simply perfect at drawing out the pathos of the period. VERDICT Although occasionally repetitive, the depth of research and brilliant writing make this an important addition to studies of the Civil War and Lincoln. Highly recommended.--Forrest Link, Coll, of New Jersey Lib., Ewing
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