{"id":1781,"date":"2017-04-01T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2017-04-01T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:29:44","slug":"jennifer-chiaverini-on-the-women-around-john-wilkes-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Chiaverini on the women around John Wilkes Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jenniferchiaverini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Jennifer-Chiaverini-June-2016.jpg\" alt=\"John Beacom\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What drives an assassin? What makes someone break past societal barriers and kill a president?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jenniferchiaverini.com\/\">Jennifer Chiaverini<\/a>\u00a0, author of <em>Mrs. Lincoln\u2019s Dressmaker<\/em>, <em>The Spymistress<\/em>, and <em>Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule<\/em>, explores this territory in <em>Fates and Traitors<\/em>, a fictional history\u00a0of John Wilkes Booth, before and after the assassination of President Lincoln. She focuses on four of the women closest to Booth: his mother, sister, secret fiance, and Confederate confidant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiaverini will be a guest author in\u00a0Columbus for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohioana.org\/programs\/ohioana-book-festival\/\">Ohioana Book Festival<\/a> on April 8, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6593\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft_2017-4-6-Chiaverini_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft_2017-4-6-Chiaverini_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft_2017-4-6-Chiaverini_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft_2017-4-6-Chiaverini_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Craft_2017-4-6-Chiaverini_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2017-4-6-Chiaverini_mixdown.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What drives an assassin? What makes someone break past societal barriers and kill a president? Jennifer Chiaverini\u00a0, author of Mrs. Lincoln\u2019s Dressmaker, The Spymistress, and Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, explores this territory in Fates and Traitors, a fictional history\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,110],"tags":[442,184,443],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-ohioana","tag-fates-and-traitors","tag-jennifer-chiaverini","tag-john-wilkes-booth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}