Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him cover art

John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him

By: E. Lawrence Abel
Narrated by: Todd Gaddy
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

My Thoughts Be Bloody cover art
The Curse of Beauty cover art
Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination cover art
Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell cover art
Ghosts of Gone with the Wind cover art
Maureen O'Hara: The Biography (Screen Classics) cover art
Jackie O: On the Couch cover art
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin cover art
The Young Hemingway cover art
Louisa May Alcott cover art
Rebel Souls cover art
Betty Grable cover art
Kirk and Anne cover art
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin cover art
The Ambulance Drivers cover art
Audition cover art

Summary

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.

©2018 E. Lawrence Abel (P)2018 Regnery Publishing

What listeners say about John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.