Nora Titone
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Nora Titone studied history at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. For the past decade she has worked as a historical researcher specializing in nineteenth-century America for a range of academics, authors, and artists. She lives in Chicago. Her first book is "My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy."

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How Sibling Rivalry Helped Spawn An Assassin

Posted October 13, 2010 | 14:53:35 (EST)

One of America's greatest political tragedies took place in a theater, the crime of a failed actor obsessed with the South's lost cause and bitterly jealous of his brother's star status. Why has so little thought been given to the theatrical dynasty that produced John Wilkes Booth?

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