Shooting Lincoln

"Shooting Lincoln is a fascinating look at a war within a war, when two rival photographers battled to chronicle the Civil War. Nicholas Pistor's gripping saga carries the reader onto battlefields and alongside the hangman's noose while chronicling the birth of modern photojournalism. A fascinating read that sharpens our focus on how much that war remains relevant today."--Scott McGaugh, author of the New York Times bestseller Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care

"Nicholas Pistor has written an engaging account of Civil War-era photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner and the birth of American news photography. Pistor's riveting narrative of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and its aftermath is by itself well worth the read."--Joseph Wheelan, author of Terrible Swift Sword and Their Last Full Measure

"A remarkable history of Civil War era journalism."—Midwest Book Review

"A gripping read...[written with] urgency and flair."—Wall Street Journal

"An engaging read."—Washington Independent Review of Books

"Pistor makes a convincing case that the efforts of Brady and Gardner consciously and often heroically documented history."—Santa Fe New Mexican