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050	0	0	_aE457.5 _b.L33 2008
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100	1		_aLarson, Kate Clifford
245	1	4	_aThe assassin's accomplice _b: Mary Surratt and the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln _c/ Kate Clifford Larson
260			_aNew York _b: Basic Books _c, c2008.
300			_axix, 263 p. _b: ills., map _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a"Devoted body and soul to the cause" -- Creating a life, building the nest -- Rebels, spies, and couriers -- Keeper of the nest -- The assassin's accomplice -- A shrewd witness -- The "materfamilias" of the criminals -- The case for the defense -- The verdict : swift and deadly -- Scenes at the scaffold -- American tragedy or American justice?
520			_aThe true story of Mary Surratt, a shadowy figure behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--and the first woman executed by the federal government. Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boarding house in Washington where the conspirators, including her rebel son, John Surratt, met to plan the assassination. When a military tribunal convicted her for her crimes and sentenced her to death, five of the nine commissioners petitioned President Andrew Johnson to show mercy on Surratt because of her sex and age. Unmoved, Johnson refused--Surratt, he said, "kept the nest that hatched the egg." Historian Larson tells the intricate story of the Lincoln conspiracy through the eyes of its only female participant. Based on long-lost interviews, confessions, and court testimony, the text explores how Mary's actions defied nineteenth-century norms of femininity, piety, and motherhood, leaving her vulnerable to a punishment historically reserved for men.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aSurratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugena) _d, 1820-1865
600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham _d(, 1809-1865) _x-Assassination
650		0	_aConspiracies _z--Washington (D.C.)
650		0	_aTrials _x--Assassination _z--Washington (D.C.)
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