Thursday, June 11, 2009

THURSDAY: Which President Killed a Man


I saw this book for sale at a bookstore and it piqued my curiosity. It is filled with tons of interesting presidential trivia - like the fact that a relative of John Wilkes Booth once saved the life of the son of Abraham Lincoln. And that same son was present for the assassination of two other presidents (He stopped accepting invitations to presidential events after the second one!). After a semester of teaching history this year, and a unit on presidential biographies, this was a fun book to fill in some of the lesser known tid-bits about the presidents and their wives and families as well as their politics. As for the title question? You'll just have to check the book out!

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