Ebook: A Finger in Lincoln's Brain: What Modern Science Reveals about Lincoln, His Assassination, and Its Aftermath

A target on his back -- A fever in the blood -- For want of a nail -- A lucky shot? -- A story too good to fact check -- Death bed vigil -- We traced the wound -- Ballistics: the science of Lincoln's gunshot wound -- Did Lincoln's doctors doom him? -- Embalming Lincoln -- We mourn a father slain -- The politics of death -- Binding up the nation's wounds -- Death will not be cheated -- Now he belongs to the ages -- There will be blood -- "Not so black and shiney as it was long ago."