Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art summoning the founder's likeness as

summoning the founder's likeness as the country took stock of what it had survived

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

and the studies of people who keep a bottle of rye on the shelf for the right occasion

A Victorian astrologer's plate that still carries the gravity of natural philosophy — half ephemeris

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art summoning the founder's likeness asSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional