James L. Swanson writes narrative history about assassinations, manhunts and turning points in American political life. Manhunt reconstructs the twelve-day search for John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, moving between the theatre, escape route, investigators and the wider political shock of the killing. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer adapts the same material for younger readers, while The President Has Been Shot! recounts the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an accessible narrative format. Swanson’s prose is fast and scene-driven, using timelines, documents and eyewitness accounts to create suspense without changing the known historical outcome. Swanson’s books are most naturally grouped with assassination history, US presidential history and narrative non-fiction. Manhunt is the central adult title, while his younger-reader books offer shorter introductions to the same kind of event-driven history. Read more Less
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