Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America - Scott Ellsworth

Described by one reviewer as a historian with the soul of a poet, Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game , winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and The Ground Breaking, his critically acclaimed account of the Tulsa race massacre. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he has written about American history for The New York Times , The Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times . He lives in Ann Arbor, where he also teaches at the University of Michigan.