Ebook {Epub PDF} Stealing Lincolns Body by Thomas J. Craughwell

 · While the field of Lincoln studies appears to have been exhaustively mined, Thomas Craughwell has found a gold nugget in the bizarre story of Stealing Lincoln's Body. In a well-researched and beautifully written book, he takes readers through the intriguing Irish underworld of counterfeiting that led to the plot to hold Lincoln's body for www.doorway.ru: Harvard University Press. “While the field of Lincoln studies appears to have been exhaustively mined, Thomas Craughwell has found a gold nugget in the bizarre story of Stealing Lincoln's Body. In a well-researched and beautifully written book, he takes readers through the intriguing Irish underworld of counterfeiting that led to the plot to hold Lincoln's body for ransom.”Cited by: 5. The author of the book Stealing Lincoln’s Body is Thomas J. Craughwell. He is also the author of several books on Catholic history, like Saints Behaving Badly and The Wisdom of the Popes, and books about American popular culture, including Urban Legends. Thomas J. Craughwell’s purpose in writing the book was to inform/5.

STEALING LINCOLN'S BODY. BY THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL. BELKNAP PRESS/HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, PAGES, $ IN November , when ghouls broke into a crypt in the church yard at St. Mark's. Thomas J. Craughwell. Stealing Lincoln's Body. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, Pp. In a story about Thomas J. Craughwell's Stealing Lincoln's Body on the www.doorway.ru Web site, Bob Bender, senior editor of Simon and Schuster, notes that Abraham Lincoln has been a best-selling subject, probably. Thomas J. Craughwell does a masterful job of bringing the reader into the world of 19th century burial rights for Abraham Lincoln and the lingering hostilities about the Civil War. The reader is drawn into the work of poor banking practices, counterfeiting and the importance of the creation of the Secret Service to catch the counterfeiters.

Craughwell, Thomas J., age 61 of Bethel, CT on Wednesday, J. He was born in Chicago, IL, on J, and had previously resided in Hawthorne, NJ. A graduate of Montclair State University, and New York University, Tom was the author of more than 35 non-fiction books including Stealing Lincolns Body and Thomas Jeffersons Crme Brulee. And, with Craughwell's book, What might we learn about Lincoln's legacy given the attempt to steal his body? Craughwell admits that the attempt to steal Washington's skull, an event so obscure that it was probably unknown to the Lincoln grave robbers, was probably not the catalyst for the attempt. On the night of the presidential election in , a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of.