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From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Sea Playground and New Great britain White, comes a daring reimagining of one of the most tumultuous moments inside our nation's history. Stephen L. Carter's fascinating new novel requires as its starting place an alternate record: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination look at at Ford's Theatre on Apr 14, 1865. Two years later he is recharged with overstepping his constitutional power, both during and after the Civil Conflict, and faces an impeachment trial.... Twenty-one-year-old Abigail Canner is a young black woman with a diploma from Oberlin, a notice of occupation from the law organization that has undertaken Lincoln's security, and the iron-strong conviction, learned from her late mother, that "whatever restrictions society might put on ordinary negroes, they would never apply to her." And so Abigail embarks on a life that defies the norms of every stratum of Washington population: working side by side with a white clerk, get together the fantastic and powerful of the nation - including the president himself. But when Lincoln's lead counsel is available brutally murdered on the eve of the trial, Abigail is plunged into a treacherous web of intrigue and conspiracy reaching the highest degrees of the divided government. Here is a vividly dreamed work of historical fiction that captures the emotional tenor of post-Civil Conflict America, a brilliantly came to the realization courtroom play that explores the always contentious question of the nature of presidential power, and a galvanizing report of politics suspense.
