NICHOLAS PISTOR


Shooting Lincoln Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the Photographs that Electrified a Nation


The intense rivalry of two famous photographers shows how photography changed our culture forever during the Civil War and throughout the chase for Lincoln’s killers


M athew 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. The photos they took electrified the country, unlocking the Americans’ passion for close-up views of history as it unfolds.


NICHOLAS PISTOR is a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a former consultant


for CBS’s


48 Hours true-crime series. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.


NickPistor.com


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