"Beautiful and terrible, Hodes's marvelously written story of the assassination fills the mind, heart and soul. People never forgot the event; this book is a page-turner that makes it all unforgettable again as it also explains how one shocking death illuminated so many others."-David W. Blight, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory -- David W. Blight "There are many books on the Lincoln assassination and the public response to it. But Martha Hodes's work is the first to focus in great detail on the responses of ordinary individuals, Northern and Southern, white and black, soldiers and civilians, women and men, in their diaries and personal correspondence, and to blend such response into the larger story of public events. The amount of research is simply staggering. This is a highly original, lucidly written, book."-James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom -- James McPherson "Mourning Lincoln is an original and important book that traces various reactions to Lincoln's assassination. Through extensive research, Martha Hodes has discovered voices that are both moving and surprising. The result is an illuminating work that allows us for the first time to understand fully the meaning of Lincoln's death at the time."-Louis P. Masur, author of Lincoln's Hundred Days -- Louis P. Masur "Drawing on a remarkable range of diaries, letters, and other contemporary documents, Martha Hodes offers a compelling and moving account of how Americans, black and white, North and South, responded to Lincoln's assassination. The result is a portrait of a deeply divided country and a foreshadowing of the violent battles to come over reunion and Reconstruction."-Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery and Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 -- Eric Foner "In Mourning Lincoln, Martha Hodes' ingenious approach and graceful execution succeed in deepening our knowledge of a calamity that will never fully end."-Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara and Mrs. Paine's Garage -- Thomas Mallon "This book is a timely reminder that wars rarely end on the battlefield. Through the lens of Lincoln's death, Martha Hodes vividly portrays a scarred and bitter nation that has laid down its arms yet embarked on a conflict that endures 150 years after Appomattox."-Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War -- Tony Horwitz Selected as a long list finalist for the 2015 National Book Awards for Nonfiction. -- National Book Awards * National Book Foundation * Winner of the 2016 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. The prize was co-founded and endowed by businessmen and philanthropists of the Gilber Lehrman Institute of American History in New York and co-creators of the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the largest private archives of documents and artifacts in the nation. -- Lincoln Prize * Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History * Winner of the 2016 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. -- Avery O. Craven * Organization of American Historians *