Description
The first edition of This One Mad Act: The Unknown Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Family, by his granddaughter, Izola Forrester.
Octavo, xii, [2], 500pp. Red cloth, title stamped in silver on spine and cover. Stated “First Printing, September 1937” on copyright page. Lacking the publisher’s scarce dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers with family tree of the Booth Family. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 15 illustrated plates. Light sunning to spine, dust along top of text block. Solid text block, free of marks or notations. (Monaghan 3562)
This work is an attempt to show that the Knights of the Golden Circle helped Booth escape and that he lived until 1879. Izola Forrester (1878-1944) was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter known for her work in early Hollywood. Izola Forrester claimed in her book This One Mad Act (1937) that her grandmother was secretly married to John Wilkes Booth, making her his granddaughter. However, there is no solid historical evidence to support this claim, and it remains a controversial and disputed aspect of her family history.
