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Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial Hardcover - 2000

by John Evangelist Walsh

A new study of an 1857 murder trial sheds new light on the vaunted character of Abraham Lincoln. Walsh makes a strong case for viewing Honest Abe differently in this true tale of murder and moonlight. 16-page photo insert.


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On August 29, 1857, in the light of a three-quarter moon, James Metzger was savagely beaten by two assailants in a grove not far from his home. Two days later he died and his assailants, James Norris and William Armstrong, were arrested and charged with his murder. Norris was tried and convicted first. As William Duff Armstrong waited for his trial, his own father died. James Armstrong's deathbed wish was that Duff's mother, Hannah, engage the best lawyer possible to defend Duff. The best person Hannah could think of was a friend, a young lawyer from Springfield by the name of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln took the case and with that begins one of the oddest journeys Lincoln took on his trek towards immortality. What really happened? How much did the moon reveal? What did Lincoln really know? Walsh makes a strong case for viewing Honest Abe in a different light in this tale of murder and moonlight. Moonlight is a 2001 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.

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It was a few minutes before midnight, the last curved sliver of a three-quarters moon about to slip below the horizon, when Press Metzger arrived home.

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  • Title Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial
  • Author John Evangelist Walsh
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York
  • Date 2000-06-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780312229221 / 0312229224
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.81 x 0.93 in (21.72 x 14.76 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Library of Congress subjects Lincoln, Abraham - Career in law, Armstrong, Duff
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99059606
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.730

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/15/2000, Page 1709
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2000, Page 706
  • Library Journal, 07/01/2000, Page 116
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/15/2000, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 124

About the author

John Evangelist Walsh is the author of more than a dozen books of history and biography, including Midnight Dreary: The Mysterios Death of Edgar Allen Poe; Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution; and The Shadows Rise: Abraham Licoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend.

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