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This is the story of the greatest genius the American stage has ever known. It is the story of a man who knew peaks of personal triumph and depths of personal desolation, the story of a character-sweet, generous and strong. Central to them all is the man whom millions idolized-and only a handful knew; the actor whose voice could send a thrill through the most worldly as well as the most lowly; the human being who, after Lincoln's assassination, never again mentioned the name of his ill-starred brother, but in whose bedroom until the day of his death the picture of John Wilkes Booth still hun… (mais)
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My father, in his habit as he liv'd. Hamlet, Act III, scene 4
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For Katherine Coldwell
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Author's Note: Edwin Booth made two recordings in 1890, but for some time I was half afraid to hear them - afraid that Booth's voice and style might not measure up to the enthusiastic descriptions I had at second hand.
Late in the 1840's a middle-aged man and a boy, the one obviously in the care of the other, could be seen occasionally weaving through the streets of one of the eastern cities, New York or Philadelphia or Richmond.
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After the clergyman finished speaking, even after the grave was filled, many in the group around it lingered, thoughtful of a moment, while the sun dropped behind the Belmont Hills.
This is the story of the greatest genius the American stage has ever known. It is the story of a man who knew peaks of personal triumph and depths of personal desolation, the story of a character-sweet, generous and strong. Central to them all is the man whom millions idolized-and only a handful knew; the actor whose voice could send a thrill through the most worldly as well as the most lowly; the human being who, after Lincoln's assassination, never again mentioned the name of his ill-starred brother, but in whose bedroom until the day of his death the picture of John Wilkes Booth still hun