John Wilkes Booth - The Most Famous Man With a Gun in All American History

Caren joy fowler, author of the bestella in the jane austen book club, joins us now from london. What is it in our current world that kept drawing your back to john wilkes booth? I don't think the parallels o between that time and this time were as clear to me when i started writing the book, obama was president. But since the trump presidency, i feel that it is more visible to me that the issues surrounding the civil war have not been resolved or are unlikely to be resolved. And gun violence, yes, john wilksbooth is probably the most famous man with a gun in all american history.