The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed
By Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
While Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 is well known, fewer are aware of the nearly successful conspiracy to kill him in 1861. A white supremacist secret society plotted to assassinate the President-elect on his way to Washington, D.C. for his inauguration.
Famed detective Allan Pinkerton, along with one of the first female private detectives, Kate Warne, infiltrated the plot and uncovered the deadly scheme before it could succeed. Had they failed, the Civil War and the trajectory of American history could have been completely altered.
Meltzer and Mensch unravel this hidden chapter in U.S. history, showing how this foiled plot might have shaped a very different America.
