Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art and the studies of people

and the studies of people who keep a bottle of rye on the shelf for the right occasion

summoning the founder's likeness as the country took stock of what it had survived

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

even as the Republic it pictured was already quarreling over Texas

Every brace and disc foundation is drawn with the patience of a man who knew the Florida reef takes ships the way salt takes iron

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art and the studies of peopleSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional