And while Lincoln's history defies brevity, Booth's own story as part of the era's pre-eminent family of American actors is complicated, too. Many minor accomplices and unwitting dupes figured in Booth's plan (originally a plot to kidnap the president), both before and after April 14, 1865, the day of the terrible deed. This sprawling narrative is a storyteller's nightmare. Swanson's "Manhunt" has found a reasonably new angle from which to approach its material. Nearly 141 years later, the body of literature about Lincoln's death is immense and seemingly exhaustive. On May 24, 1865, less than a month after the death of John Wilkes Booth, a publisher issued a book called "The Assassinator." It was a fictionalized account of Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the beginning of a historians' cottage industry that is still going strong.
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