James L. Swanson

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild chase....

On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee....

Swanson transports listeners back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history....

Few things illustrate the magnetism of the Kennedy era like Marilyn Monroe co-headlining the President's massive birthday fundraiser, and suggestively crooning "Happy Birthday." But only a privileged few know what happened months earlier....

The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history....

With an entirely fresh take on presidential history, author James Swanson shares the story of his lifelong obsession with the murder of America’s most revered president and the frantic hunt for his assassin....

Here, for the first time in decades, is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President John F. Kennedy was shot....

In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.

This fast-paced thriller tells the story of the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth and gives a day-by-day account of the wild chase to find this killer and his accomplices....

An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr....