America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination
What really drove John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln? Not madness. Not impulse. White supremacy.
In America’s Original Sin, historian John Rhodehamel delivers a gripping narrative that reframes one of the most infamous crimes in American history. Drawing on Booth’s life, letters, and the political climate of the Civil War, Rhodehamel argues the assassination was an act of extremist ideology—rooted in rage over emancipation and racial equality.