UNITED STATES AUTHOR · POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT · SPEECHES IN CONGRESS
John Armor Bingham
Most acclaimed
State of the Union
1861
Lieutenant Zachary Turzin is the most decorated soldier on active duty in the U.S. armed services: A Gulf War veteran, he is fluent in Arabic and Farsi and flies Blackhawk helicopters. He's led a Green Beret team to one of the most dangerous places on earth and received a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery. But nothing has prepared for him for the perils of his new assignment: the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Everyone wants a piece of him, including two of the capital's most influential men. Admiral Jeffrey Forsten is the real power in the Pentagon and a leader of messianic drive. Douglas Sherman is a politician of enormous ambition - and ruthless tactics. Bound together by three decades of dark secrets and the common dream of limitless power, Forsten and Sherman face only one obstacle: the U.S. Constitution. Zach leaps at the chance to move to the Pentagon's nerve center, working under Admiral Forsten. But when he discovers a crime in Forsten's past and the truth about his alliance with Sherman, a shadowy world of intrigue and death opens up, with an ex-Green Beret who kills for pleasure on his trail, and a beautiful woman who may be someone to believe in - or someone to place him in even greater danger. Forsten and Sherman have a plan of stunning ingenuity almost too monstrous to comprehend. With the President and the FBI paralyzed by indecision, only Zach has a chance to stop a conspiracy that will bring down the government. As time runs out, he embarks upon his most risky mission yet. From the inner sanctums of the Pentagon to the White House's Situation Room and Oval Office, from the deserts of Oman to the mountains of Lebanon, State of the Union masterfully explores the dark side of power and politics in the post-Cold War world and lays out a chillingly believable scenario for a right-wing military coup.
The trial of the alleged assassins and conspirators at Washington City, D.C., May and June, 1865
"Being a full and verbatim report of the testimony of all the witnesses examined in the whole trial, with the argument of Reverdy Johnson on the jurisdiction of the commission, and all the arguments of counsel on both sides, with the closing argument of Hon. John A. Bingham, Special Judge Advocate, as well as the verdict of the military commission, and the President's approval of the same; with his official order for the execution of Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Harold, and Atzeroth; and full particulars in relation to the condemned, from the time of their having their sentences of condemnation read to them by Major-General Hancock, until the moment of their execution; with scenes on the scaffold, etc. With a sketch of the life of all the conspirators, and portraits and illustrative engravings of the principal persons and scenes relating to the foul murder and the trial. It also contains Mrs. Surratt's petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus on the morning of her execution, its endorsement by the Court, and process served on General Hancock, with his appearance in court, and return made to it, with the address of Attorney-General Speed, and the President's endorsement on the return, suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus in the case , and the remarks made on it by the Court, with other items of fact and interest not to be found in any other work of the kind published. The whole being complete and unabridged in this volume, being prepared on the spot by the special correspondents and reporters of the Philadelphia Daily Inquirer, expressly for this edition"--T.p.