Books by James L. Swanson
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review 1: Well, this was ONE FASCINATING read. While Lincoln's body was wending its way home to be buried in Springfield, the hunt was on for ol' Jeff Davis, the erstwhile "President" of the Confederate States, who was wending his own way southward (with a stack of gold - so what else is ...
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review 1: This book is called "The President Has Been Shot!". The author is James L. Swanson, and he has also wrote a book called Chasing Lincoln's Killer, in the same genre of this book. Speaking of genre, the genre of this book is Nonfiction, and it's sort of a biography because it tell...
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review 1: I read the book Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson. The book is about John Wilkes Booth and how he killed Lincoln. John was a famous actor so he had access to everyone who was famous. When the Lincoln's went to Fords theater John used that to get into Lincoln's booth wh...
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review 1: I actually read BLOODY TIMES: THE FUNERAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE MANHUNT FOR JEFFERSON DAVIS, which is the "special adaptation for young people" published by Scholastic. I learned so many things! For one, I didn't know that the South had a president during the Civil War, Jeff...
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review 1: When reading "The day the president was shot", one comes to learn the life and death of President John F. Kennedy. During the book, it describes his early life and early years of the presidency briefly. It talks about his years of deployement and the wins and failures of his pres...