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Nick Pistor signs and discusses “Shooting Lincoln”

Left Bank Books & "St. Louis on the Air" welcome St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Nick Pistor, who will sign and discuss his new book, "Shooting Lincoln: The Race to Photograph the Story of the Century," with Don Marsh! This event will be recorded for broadcast on "St. Louis on the Air."

This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of "Shooting Lincoln" from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line.

Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. Together they brought the Civil War and all of its terrible suffering into Northern living rooms. Newspapers sold out when they ran their photos, and, by the end of the war, they were locked in fierce competition. When the biggest story of the century-Lincoln's assassination-broke, their paparazzi-like race intensified. Whoever could take the most sensational-or ghastly-photo would achieve lasting fame. "Shooting Lincoln" tells the astonishing behind-the-photograph story of these two media pioneers who raced to "shoot" Lincoln in the days after he died and the assassins on the day they died.

Event Properties

Event Date 09-27-2017 7:00 pm
Location Left Bank Books - West End

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