John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him

When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fiancée.

And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.

Before he shot the president of the United States and entered the annals of history as a killer, actor John Wilkes Booth had quite a way with women. There was the actress who cut his throat and almost killed him in a jealous rage. There was the prostitute who tried to kill herself because he abandoned her. There was the actress who would swear she witnessed him murdering Lincoln, even though she was thousands of miles away at the time. John Wilkes Booth was hungry for fame, touchy about politics, and a notorious womanizer. But this book isn't about John Wilkes Booth---not really. This book is about his women: women who were once notorious in their own right; women who were consumed by love, jealousy, strife, and heartbreak; women whose lives took wild turns before and after Lincoln's assassination; women whom have been condemned to the footnotes of history... until now.

• Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
• Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
• The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth
• Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination: The Untold Story of the Actors and Stagehands at Ford's Theatre
• The Last Weeks of Abraham Lincoln: A Day-by-Day Account of His Personal, Political, and Military Challenges
• Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America
• The Escape and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
• American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
• My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
• How John Wilkes Booth Assassinated Abraham Lincoln