'Booth' looks at the family life of President Lincoln's notorious assassin
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This is actually not my first historical novel, but it is the first one in which i dealt with actual people. The booths didn't want their children going into the theatre, did they? They weren't allowed to come to see him act. He picked out other careers for themnd tried to force them into other pursuits. Three of his four surviving sons became actors.
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