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...JUDGES OF THE SECRET COURT (255 pp.)-David Stacton-Pantheon...
...Historical novelists seldom write in anger. In telling about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his killer, John Wilkes Booth, and the near-farcical trial of Booth's fellow "conspirators," Author Stacton is clearly angry, but not at Booth; shrewdly enough, he treats him with pitying contempt. His target is the injustice that was done not only to Booth's largely duped friends but to the murderer's family as a result of his tragically stupid and criminal...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel...
...Balcony, by David Stacton. An astringent tale, several notches above the usual historical novel, of Egypt's neurotic Pharaoh Ikhnaton and his attempts to replace the old gods with a new and self-centered religion...