{"title":"Jim Bishop","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-day-lincoln-was-shot-paperback","title":"The Day Lincoln Was Shot - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Day Lincoln Was Shot \u003c\/em\u003eis a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth during every movement of that fateful day. Author and journalist Jim Bishop has fashioned an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more alive than any newspaper account.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1955, \u003cem\u003eThe Day Lincoln Was Shot\u003c\/em\u003e was a huge bestseller, and in 1998 it was made into a TNT movie, with Rob Morrow as Booth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGripping, minute-by-minute account of the day President Lincoln was struck down by an assassin's bullet in Ford's Theatre. Parallels of the activities of the President with those of his assassin in an unforgettable, suspense- filled chronicle. 320 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt seven o'clock on the morning of April 14, 1865, President Lincoln came out of his bedroom, nodded to the night guard, and started down the hall to his office. At 7:22 the following morning Surgeon General Barnes pressed silver coins to his eyelids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe president's day was, as usual, crammed with meetings and appointments, but he was probably no busier than John Wilkes Booth, the man who would stand behind him at Ford's Theatre that evening. Although the plan had been long in the making, the time and place were not set until eleven that morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Day Lincoln Was Shot\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the movements of these two men minute by minute until the almost unbearable suspense is shattered with a single gunshot and a leap to the stage. From a thousand bits and scraps of information, Jim Bishop has fashioned an unforgettable tale of tragedy, more gripping than fiction, more alive than any newspaper account.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365565628639,"sku":"9780062290601","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Sjl51xh2eu9780062290601.webp?v=1789066394"},{"product_id":"the-golden-ham-a-candid-biography-of-jackie-gleason-paperback","title":"The Golden Ham: A Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Golden Ham\u003c\/strong\u003e, first published in 1956, recounts the career of entertainer and comedian Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) from his beginnings in show-business to the mid-1950s when he was at the peak of his early success with The Honeymooners. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his foreword, author Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the first time \"he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered. And yet there were parts of this biography that made him wince.\" For \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Ham \u003c\/em\u003eis candid biography. To it Mr. Bishop brought his painstaking interest in detail, his reporter's curiosity, his layman's interest in the world of the theater, and his detachment. And most important, he began and ended his job with Jackie Gleason's guarantee that nothing Bishop wrote would be censored. The result is a kind of theatrical biography that is entirely new and, like Gleason himself, is made up of a great deal of a great many things. As Bishop says: \"There are several Jackie Gleasons. I know some of them. There is Gleason the comedian. Millions know him, and he's a great talent. Then there is Gleason the producer and Gleason the writer. Some people know these...Gleason the businessman-second-rate, but he thinks he's good at it - and then there is Gleason the thinker (apt and fast) and Gleason the man (fat, out of shape, but light on his feet) and Gleason the tenement-house kid from Brooklyn (nervy and not a bit surprised that he's on top) and Gleason the lover, Gleason the musician, Gleason the moody, and Gleason the lonely, tormented soul.\" This is a book about Jackie Gleason. If you like him, it may make you like him more, or less, depending on the kind of person you are. If you never liked him, it may change your mind a little. 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