Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art even as the Republic it

even as the Republic it pictured was already quarreling over Texas

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

summoning the founder's likeness as the country took stock of what it had survived

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art even as the Republic itSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional