Ink Fish Books is co-hosting the Bosworth Lecture Series Event at the Rogers Free Library Thursday, March 12, 7:00 PM with Edward Achorn author of Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. We'll have books available for purchase at the event and we have it in stock now if you'd like to pick up a copy.

Brief Description:

"By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. That day, after a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington's Capitol grounds to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war's unimaginable horrors--every drop of blood spilled--might well have been God's just verdict on the national sin of slavery. Edward Achorn reveals the nation's capital on that momentous day ... weav[ing] together with the stories of the host of characters, unknown and famous, that had converged on Washington ... [and] captures the frenzy in the nation's capital at this crucial moment in America's history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincoln's assassination. His story offers a new understanding of our great national crisis, and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time"--

Biographical Note:
Edward Achorn, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Commentary and winner of the Yankee Quill Award, is the vice president and editorial pages editor of The Providence Journal. He is the author of two acclaimed books about nineteenth-century baseball and American culture, Fifty-nine in '84 and The Summer of Beer and Whiskey. He lives in a 1840s farmhouse in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.