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The common wisdom is the fact John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, was a failed actor and a madman. Nevertheless, you that he was the matinee idol of his time, and the attack on Lincoln had not been the act of a maniac, but part of a plan developed at the best levels of the Confederacy. In Consider the Elephant by Aram Schefrin, the story of John Wilkes Booth's life and death is told by his brother, Edwin Booth, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his age. The book suffused with the ambiance of the 19th century American theater and filled with rich characters. It lays out at length the path Wilkes took to the top of the celebrity heap, his growing involvement with the Southern rebels, and the development in Richmond of the plot to kidnap and later assassinate the Union's president.
