Book excerpt: "Here is Lincoln in the Bardo--for real. You couldn't make it up--necromancers, mad actors, frauds, true believers, and, in the middle, the greatest President." --Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth.