The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost by Peter Manseau

The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Peter Manseau

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A story of faith and fraud in post–Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead.In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s ima...

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