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A collection of writings by an early civil and women's rights pioneer, Ida B. Wells.

"The Last Campaign" examines what presidents do to keep us from knowing what presidents do: skewed history, self-commemoration, the influence of private money and political organizations, and a compromised government agency - the National Archives, which operates the libraries. Presidential library expert Anthony Clark recounts his attempts, as a private citizen and as a senior Congressional staffer, to rein in the system?s worst abuses.

A collection of all the known writings of John Wilkes Booth, consisting of nearly seventy documents including love letters, several statements of his political convictions, a twenty-page manuscript in which he declares his hatred for Abraham Lincoln, and the diary he kept while on the run after Lincoln's assassination.