Booth

by Karen Joy Fowler

In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

The Booths could take acting lessons from her (and probably any other slave in the South as well).

Sometimes people have to be taught to want what they should want.

He thinks about Father’s playbills and about time passing and how the things you can keep really only serve to remind you of all that you’ve lost.

The Dred Scott decision is now generally agreed to be the worst Supreme Court ruling in all of American history though not for lack of competition.