Shooting Lincoln
Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the Race to Photograph the Story of the Century
Author:
Nicholas Pistor
Narrator:
Joe Knezevich
Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. Together they brought the Civil War and all of its terrible suffering into Northern living rooms. Newspapers sold out when they ran their photos, and, by the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. When the biggest story of the century—Lincoln's assassination—broke, their paparazzi-like race intensified. Whoever could take the most sensational—or ghastly—photo would achieve lasting fame. Shooting Lincoln tells the astonishing behind-the-photograph story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" Lincoln in the days after he died and the assassins on the day they died. The photos they took electrified the country, unlocking the passion of Americans for close-up views of history as it happened.
Product Details ⌃
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ISBN:
9781549112836
SKU#:
36359
Publisher:
Hachette Audio
Genre:
History
Duration:
07:38:01
Release Date:
Oct. 19, 2017
Language:
English
