#hardcover#NYTbestseller#exlib The infamous John Wilkes Booth, mercurial son of an acclaimed British stage actor in a Covent Garden flower girl, has been the subject of more than a century scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Booth is often portrayed as a shadow we figure, violent loner who single murderous act made him the most hated man in America. Lost to history until now is the story of the four women whom he left and who loved him in return.