Hanged!: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9780593181577)

From the critically acclaimed author of The Borden Murders comes the thrilling story of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the US government, for her alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

A dubious distinction belongs to Mary Surratt: on July 7, 1865, she became the first woman to be executed by the United States government, accused of conspiring in the plot to assassinate not only President Abraham Lincoln, but also the vice president, the secretary of state, and General Grant.

Mary Surratt was a widow, a Catholic, a businesswoman, a slave owner, a Union resident, and the mother of a Confederate Secret Service courier. As the proprietor of the boardinghouse where John Wilkes Booth and his allies are known to have gathered, Mary Surratt was widely believed, as President Andrew Johnson famously put it, to have "kept the nest that hatched the egg." But did Mrs. Surratt truly commit treason by aiding and abetting Booth in his plot to murder the president? Or was she the victim of a spectacularly cruel coincidence? Here is YA nonfiction at its best--gripping, thought-provoking, and unputdownable.

Author: Sarah Miller
ISBN-10: 0593181573
ISBN-13: 9780593181577
Publisher: Random House Studio
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 352
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.06w x 1.18d

Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2022 pg. 108
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2022 - Superior,Well Above Average