A historical epic bursting with wit and melancholy, The King’s Two Bodies examines the events leading to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination from the perspective of the psychics with whom he and Mary Todd associated. Did Mary Todd’s interest in séances stem from mental illness? Was Abraham already dying well before John Wilkes Booth murdered him? Could the fraudulent psychic Charles Colchester have prevented Lincoln’s murder—if only people had listened? Written by Charles Poole, whose writing Neil Coker of the Tallahassee Democrat has called “so good that I’m willing to compare it to the masters of antiquity” (19 March 2015).
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*Teaser poster art photo credit: Richard Strauss for The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, 1995 (Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image #NMAH-95-5528-000002); public domain, text added.
