James L. Swanson (born February 12, 1959)
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'' best-seller ''Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer'', focusing on the biography of John Wilkes Booth and his plot to kill Lincoln and other cabinet members. For this book he earned an Edgar Award. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and in the past has appeared on C-SPAN on behalf of the Koch-affiliated libertarian CATO Institute
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think tank.
Education
Swanson graduated from the University of Chicago
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with a bachelor's degree in history and from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
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with a J.D. degree.think-tank
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posts in Washington, D.C., including at the United States Department of Justice. He serves on the advisory council of the Ford's Theatre Society
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. The theater is infamous for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box ...
.
Career
Swanson is an Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...
scholar and is a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. His main area of research is on the Lincoln assassination
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play ''Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Shot in the hea ...
. He has also served in the U.S. Department of Justice
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.
Bibliography
Books
* ''Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer''. 2007.
* ''Chasing Lincoln's Killer: The Search for John Wilkes Booth''.
References
External links
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Fairfax Network: Guest Authors
Library of Congress: James L. Swanson
Biography: James L. Swanson
James L. Swanson Bibliography
1959 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Abraham Lincoln
American male non-fiction writers
The Heritage Foundation
UCLA School of Law alumni
University of Chicago alumni
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