About the Author
James L. Swanson was born to a family of storytellers. His grandfather worked in the Chicago police department and regaled the family with stories of gangsters during the prohibition era and protesters against the Vietnam War. His grandmother, who worked at tabloid newspapers in Chicago, bought him an engraving of the Deringer pistol that Booth used to shoot Lincoln for his tenth birthday, beginning a lifelong fascination with the sixteenth president and with his assassination. He has a law degree from UCLA and has was a special assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. Swanson has also written books about the manhunt for Confederate President Jefferson Davis and about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Chasing Lincoln’s Killer begins in 1865 at the end of the four-year Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln had led the Union forces against the Confederacy, which sought to secede from the Union. A...
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