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Treasure hunters Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington are heading for adventure in Washington D.C., the sleek, modern, power-hungry capital of America...and the crowded, muddy, intrigue-filled nexus of the Civil War. Their prize? A document of incredible historical importance and incalculable value: Abraham Lincoln's diary.
What if Lincoln recorded his innermost thoughts as he moved toward the realization that he must free the slaves? And what if that diary slipped from his fingers in 1862? A recently discovered letter written by Lincoln suggests that the diary exists and is waiting to be found. Some want the diary for its enormous symbolic value to a nation that reveres Lincoln. Others believe it carries a dark truth about Lincoln's famous proclamation--a truth that could profoundly impact the fast-approaching elections and change the course of a nation. Peter and Evangeline must race against these determined adversaries to uncover a document that could shake the foundation of Lincoln's legacy.
From William Martin, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Constitution, The Lincoln Letter is a breathless chase across the Washington of today as well as a political thriller set in our besieged Civil War capital. It is a story of old animosities that still smolder, old philosophies that still contend, and a portrait of our greatest president as he passes from lawyer to leader in the struggle for a new birth of freedom.
- Sales Rank: #760190 in Books
- Brand: Martin, William
- Published on: 2012-08-21
- Released on: 2012-08-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x 1.48" w x 6.43" l, 1.45 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 448 pages
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“What an irresistible combination--a sparkling mystery, intriguing characters, and lively history. I am a huge William Martin fan, but The Lincoln Letter is my absolute favorite.” ―Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Team of Rivals
“The Lincoln Letter is an engrossing mystery, a masterful blend of the past and present. The author captures Civil War Washington, D.C., Lincoln, and other historic figures in fine detail and historical accuracy. The narrative is a compelling read that moves deftly, back and forth, from the 1860s to modern times. The book should appeal to Civil War buffs and readers of mystery novels.” ―Jeffry D. Wert, Civil War Historian and author of The Sword of Lincoln
“William Martin is quite simply the best writer of historical suspense in the business today, and The Lincoln Letter is sensational reading even by Martin's lofty standards.” ―Michael Palmer, 16-time New York Times bestselling author of Oath of Office
“Highly imaginative, beautifully written, devilishly exciting, this explosive new thriller will excite Martin's legions of fans and win him many, many more.” ―Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Cain at Gettysburg
“If you thought you knew a lot about the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, this book will change your mind. Bill Martin has woven history and mystery into a riveting narrative you can't stop reading.” ―Thomas Fleming, bestsellling author of The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
“An electrifying novel of Abraham Lincoln's freeing of the slaves, the violence that ensued and how we came to be the people we are today. Shocking, terrifying, exciting, insightful.” ―Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Exit Plan
About the Author
WILLIAM MARTIN, The New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, is best known for his historical fiction, which has chronicled the lives of the great and the anonymous in American history while bringing to life legendary American locations, from Cape Cod to Annapolis to The City of Dreams. His first novel, Back Bay, introduced Boston treasure hunter Peter Fallon, who is still tracking artifacts across the landscape of our national imagination. Martin's subsequent novels, including Harvard Yard, Citizen Washington, and The Lost Constitution have established him, as a "storyteller whose smoothness matches his ambition." (Publishers Weekly) He has also written an award-winning PBS documentary and one of the cheesiest horror movies ever made. Nevertheless, he was the recipient of the 2005 New England Book Award, given to "an author whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region." There are now over three million copies of his books in print. He has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife.
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Prologue
On the last day of his life, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter. If he was angry, anger did not reveal itself in his handwriting, which was typically clean and open. If he was euphoric, and those who observed him that day attested later that he was, euphoria did not express itself either.
The letter lacked the poetry of his best speeches and demonstrated none of the cold and relentless logic of his political writing.
It was as simple, direct, and as blunt as a cannonball:
Dear Lieutenant Hutchinson,
It comes to my attention that you are still alive. This means that you may still be in possession of something that I believe fell into your hands in the telegraph office three years ago. It would be best if you returned it, considering its potential to alter opinions regarding the difficulties just ended and those that lie ahead. If you do, a presidential pardon will be considered.
A. Lincoln.
Lincoln did not inform his secretary about the letter.
It was unlikely that he wanted questions regarding correspondence with an officer who had served not only in the field but also in the War Department telegraph office, before coming into significant personal difficulty.
It would also have appeared strange that Lincoln did not address the letter to Lieutenant Hutchinson. He sent it instead to Private Jeremiah Murphy at the Armory Square Hospital on Seventh Street.
But even a president had his secrets.
Lincoln sealed the letter and slipped it into a pile of outgoing correspondence, some to be mailed, some to be hand delivered around the city.
It was just after eight when his wife appeared in the doorway to his office, where he was finishing a chat with a congressman. She was wearing a white dress with black stripes and a bonnet adorned with pink silk flowers. She had always favored flowers. But she had worn them less and less in the last four years. No woman who had lost a son and two half brothers, no woman who had watched her husband grow old under history’s heaviest burden, would be inclined to wear anything but black. Still, flowers and dress did nothing to soften her voice. “Mr. Lincoln, would you have us be late?”
He said, “To night, we shall laugh.”
Then he called for his carriage, and they went to the theater.
ONE
Friday Night
Peter Fallon received a copy of that letter as an attachment to an e-mail on the third Friday night of September.
He would not have read it, except that it came from Diana Wilmington, an assistant professor at the George Washington University and author of a controversial new book, The Racism and Resolve of Abraham Lincoln. The book had gotten her onto television, radio, magazine covers, and made her one of the most recognizable African American scholars in the country. Peter had also dated her when she was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts.
“I’ve been thinking of you,” she wrote. “I still read the Boston gossip pages. (How could I not, after the gossip we inspired?) So that bit about you and Evangeline caught my eye. Not getting married but still having a reception … genius.”
Yes, thought Peter. Genius. The hall had been rented and the champagne was cold. It was a great party. As for the decision not to get married … he was not so sure.
He took a sip of wine and kept reading:
“I really liked Evangeline. I thought she was good for you.”
True. Peter couldn’t remember which of them first said, “If it works don’t fix it.” But now, Evangeline was prepping a new project in New York, and Peter was guest-curating a new exhibit in Boston.
“However,” Diana went on, “I’m not writing about your love life. I’d like you to take a look at this attachment.”
Peter clicked to the scanned image of a letter. He glanced first at the header, printed in an Old English typeface: “Executive Mansion.” Beneath it was the word “Washington,” the date April 14, 1865, and to the side, the word “Private” handwritten and circled. Then Peter’s eye dropped to the signature, to the clear and characteristic cursive that was the Holy Grail of autograph collectors everywhere: A. Lincoln.
In an instant, he knew that whatever this was, it was worth seven figures: a Lincoln signature, on a Lincoln letter, written from the Lincoln White House.
Then he looked again at the date and felt a chill: the day Lincoln was shot.
He wiped the sweat from his palms, as if he were touching the original instead of seeing it on a computer screen. He almost went looking for white cotton curatorial gloves.
Could this be Lincoln’s last letter? A last insight into the most analyzed, adulated, biographied, beloved, and, in a few places, detested man in American history? And what did this anonymous lieutenant have that mattered so much at the end of the Civil War?
Peter clicked again on the e-mail:
I held this letter in my hands a week ago, along with the envelope addressed to a Corporal Jeremiah Murphy. A man was offering it for sale to the American Museum of Emancipation. I told him we were very small, hoping to consolidate with the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture when it opens in 2015, but that I would talk to our board. When I tried to contact him two days ago, he had gone incommunicado. I had been planning to ask you to appraise the letter. Would you be willing to put your skills to finding it, or at least uncovering the story behind it?
Peter lifted the wine bottle. One more tip into the glass would bring him to the bottom of the label. When he drank alone—something he’d been doing more since the wedding that wasn’t—he had a rule: Drink to the bottom of the label and no farther. Stopper the bottle. And every few nights, finish the high-quality dregs. So he poured a bit more, swirled, and sipped.
Then he wrote back:
The last big Lincoln letter to come on the market was his answer to the so-called Little People’s Petition. It went for 3.2m in ’09. That’s where the bidding starts on this, if it’s authentic. So call me. I’m up until midnight.
Then he drank the wine with a little wedge of Époisses: a big cab with a big cheese, an excellent nightcap. And NESN was nightcapping an excellent Red Sox game, which he missed because he had been working on a new exhibit for the Boston Public Library: “A Northern City and the Civil War.”
It was opening on September 22, the 150th anniversary of the day Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. The Leventhal Center was providing battle maps. Rare Books was delivering journals and photos from the famed Twentieth Regiment Collection. Peter was contributing a few things from his Antiquaria catalog, including a presentation copy of Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War, inscribed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. And an anonymous lender was offering a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation itself.
Peter was doing more than guest curators usually did. He considered it a signal honor from his city, so he wanted to earn it.
And Boston was more than his city. It was his town.
He had his roots in Southie. He’d gone to BC High and Harvard. He ran his business from the third floor of a Newbury Street bowfront that was above an art gallery that was above a restaurant. He had Red Sox season tickets and sat on the boards of two Boston museums. And he could never imagine moving to New York, no matter how much he liked to visit.
Evangeline had decided that she didn’t want to live anywhere but New York, which made marriage a problem and led them to face a hard truth: They both liked their independence, no matter how much they loved each other.
So they’d had a party instead of a wedding and settled for status quo ante. No sharing of utility bills or toothpaste, no extracurricular sharing of themselves, either.
While he waited for Diana Wilmington to call, Peter e-mailed Evangeline:
See you Sunday. We’ll have fun on the battlefields.
Then he poured the rest of the wine.
* * *
How did we decide that a little thing like a city would keep us apart?
That was what Evangeline Carrington was thinking as she rode a taxi down the West Side the next morning. But she didn’t think long, because she was catching the 8 A.M. Acela to Washington for her biggest professional adventure yet.
The travel writer was trying television.
She had always written—for satisfaction, for pay, for therapy. She wrote in her attic when she was a girl. She wrote for the Crimson when she went to Harvard. She wrote her way through Columbia School of Journalism after her first breakup with Peter. And after her first marriage fell apart, she wrote about the places she went to escape.
She had built a nice career, but every year, there were fewer travel magazines and fewer travel sections in fewer newspapers. So it was time for the next step. She’d thought about a blog. But Peter urged her to think big: television.
And she had an idea for a show, but not for the Travel Channel or PBS. No, when she thought television, she thought History Network.
Her idea: a photogenic journalist takes you to fun places. Sure, it had been done before. But Evangeline was planning to explore the best sites, restaurants, and hotels for the history-oriented traveler, and each bundle of shows would have a theme: Revolutionary New England, the Oregon Trail, New York in the Ragtime era.…
The network fell in love … with her, with her pitch, and with her plan for the first bundle: Travels in Civil War Country, yet another angle for their wall-to-wall Civil War sesquicentennial progra...
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
The Lincoln Letter: Historical Fiction at its Best
By RK Podlesak
The Lincoln Letter: Historical Fiction at its Best!
The Lincoln Letter is William Martin's finest work of historical fiction to date. Martin's choice of placing a lost Lincoln diary at the center of a historical suspense novel is brilliant. The value of a lost Lincoln diary would not only be of significant monetary value, but would also be of immeasurable historical and political significance - a perfect basis for a complex plot of suspense and intrigue, as opposing parties hunt down the diary. Regardless of how much the reader might already know about Abraham Lincoln, the struggles for Emancipation, or the Civil War, you will find yourself intrigued by the idea that behind the famous speeches, proclamations and acts of one of the most famous American presidents, there were inevitable internal struggles and an evolution of personal opinion.
What if we could catch a glimpse of Lincoln's internal debates and dilemmas from the first day of his Inauguration through the Civil War and passage of the Emancipation Act for the District of Columbia, as well as his concerns about reconstruction of the Union in the post-Civil War years? The Lincoln Letter parts the curtains, letting us catch that glimpse of the man, his personal thoughts and growth. While Lieutenant Halsey Hutchinson searches frantically for the diary with the intention of returning it to its rightful owner, President Lincoln, Radical Republicans and Democrats of the time conduct a search with their own self-interests in mind, particularly with an important election at stake. These opposing political forces would love to get their hands on Lincoln's private views on the war, slavery, emancipation, border state reaction, fear of secession, suffrage for freed slaves and post-war reconstruction. In a parallel search for the diary in the present day, as the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation approaches, Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington - favorite characters of loyal Martin readers -- hunt through modern-day Washington D.C., anxious to find and preserve the buried thoughts of one of America's most revered presidents.
In reading The Lincoln Letter you will see the streets and people of Civil War era Washington D.C. come to life, meet a range of historical figures from John Wilkes Booth to Walt Whitman, and view grand historical scenes in gripping cinematic detail, from the Grand Illumination of the District of Columbia with its newly-constructed Capitol Dome, to the richly clad, lively assembly of theater patrons at Ford's Theater on the fateful night of Lincoln's assassination. Witness Lincoln growing old "under history's heaviest burden" and the evolution of Lincoln as a leader at a critical time in the building of an America "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
50 SHADES OF ABE
By Jayhawk
William Martin, the historical novelist who has brought his insights to the major characters of our country's history, has just released his 10th novel, THE LINCOLN LETTER. Several books ago Martin devoted a novel to our first president, CITIZEN WASHINGTON, without whom, Martin claims, our country would have been fundamentally different. Imagine....We could have done without John Adams or Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin and our country would be the same today. Without Washington, it wouldn't. He was the giant of our revolution, the essential ingredient. It is altogether fitting and proper that Martin, after taking on the president that made us the United States of America, would ultimately take on the president who kept us the United States of America. This is an exciting, informative, and compelling book. I knew Martin would set his sights on Lincoln sooner or later and I'm glad it has finally happened.
Though far more has been written about Abraham Lincoln than any of our presidents, William Martin gives him breath and voice. We are privy to Lincoln's imagined thoughts and conversations. Along the way we also eavesdrop on conversations of Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Allan Pinkerton, General George McLellan, John Wilkes Booth and other notables of the time. William Martin has always been expert at this. With what we all know about our 16th president, what Lincoln says and thinks in this book seems right to us. Abraham Lincoln presided over the most difficult time in our history and William Martin helps us to feel Lincoln's anxieties. And there were many. No president has faced the conflicts that Lincoln did. Our political animosities of today pale in comparison to those of the Civil War era. Perhaps Don Corleone learned to `keep your friends close but your enemies closer' from Abraham Lincoln!
What if President Lincoln kept a daybook, a kind of journal, in which he wrote his thoughts about the war and about slavery and the events of the time? What if that daybook were lost and fell into the wrong hands? `What if' is William Martin's terrain. A letter Lincoln wrote on the day of his death indicates the existence of the daybook and Martin's favorite sleuthing pair, Antiquarian Bookseller Peter Fallon, and Evangeline Carrington, follow the historical trail to this Lincoln daybook. The character that moves the story along is Lt. Halsey Hutchinson of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, who was injured in battle and re-assigned to the telegraph office of the War Department. Lincoln was a regular visitor to this office, where he read important communications from his generals, etc. Through these visits to the telegraph office, Lincoln and Hutchinson become friends. On one of these visits Lincoln leaves the daybook behind and it's discovered by Lt. Hutchinson, who intends to give the daybook back to the president on his next visit but before that occurs, the daybook is stolen and thus begins the quest.
Martin moves us back and forth through the events and characters of our Civil War and to the present adventures of Fallon and Carrington. The events of the past govern Fallon's and Carrington's activities in the present. This is vintage William Martin. After Lincoln's assassination, a character in the book remarks about the President, "There was truth in his thoughts and music in his words." From BACK BAY, William Martin's first bestseller, right up to this new book, that can be said of his entire body of work. There is truth in William Martin's thoughts and music in his words. Martin's universe of fans will love this book, as I did, and the always intriguing Abraham Lincoln will bring new fans into his orbit. In this LINCOLN LETTER William Martin gets `down to the raisins.' What's that? Read this fantastic new book and you'll see........
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
An Exceptional Novel
By Christopher Keane
Every once in a while a novel comes along that crystallizes for me a critical moment in history better than any non-fiction book can come close to matching. Such a book is William Martin's THE LINCOLN LETTER.
Through fastidious research and with the sure hand of a master story teller, Mr. Martin leads us through the dark conspiratorial machinations of the men and women that planned and carried out perhaps the most audacious and damning event in the history of this nation.
In chilling detail we discover, piece-by-piece, through the eyes of young Lt. Halsey, Lincoln's aide-de-camp, the conspiracy to assassinate the president and those players responsible in this deadly game that will change the course of history.
The characters are so vividly drawn, from Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth to political heavyweights and Negro families whose dedication to peace and justice puts them in grave jeopardy, that they seem to spring to life fully realized until we learn soon enough that things are never what they seem.
Any book that can upset my expectations so often through reversals and surprise, or can take me down history's highways with such command and grand style as THE LINCOLN LETTER does is worthy of a place on the "read again" shelf.
I have read Mr. Martin's previous books, all of which I enjoyed. With each one he grew stronger. THE LINCOLN LETTER is his best. While some writers pen later books as if relying on good reviews from earlier books more than writing sharply, Mr. Martin tops himself at every turn.
Another component of Mr. Martin's story-telling prowess is the telling of the "other" story, an excellent device he has used with great skill in a number of his previous books.
The "other "story he tells simultaneously. This story takes place in the present day, in alternating chapters. In the past story Lincoln has written a letter detailing his thoughts on what he sees in the days prior to his assassination. The letter, containing critical information, passes through various sets of hands. At one point it goes missing and stays that way for a hundred some-odd years until the present when news of its existence appears. Peter Fallon, a rare book collector and literary sleuth, and his on-again, off-again fiancée Evangeline Carrington, a lawyer, team up to find the letter.
I won't give away the letter's contents. Suffice it to say that in both stories a lot of people will do anything to get their hands on it.
Both stories culminate in one of the best and most satisfying conclusions I've ever had the pleasure of reading. My only problem is that I now have to wait for another year or so to read the next of William Martin's exceptional novels.
Christopher Keane
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