The Honorable Jonathan Jackson, an ex—state legislator and former gubernatorial assistant, is trying to puzzle out and understand one of those mind—boggling tragedies that occur from time to time in the course of U.S. public life; an assassination. In this case, the victim was the man he worked for, Governor Richard N. Ellery. The anguish of this tragedy is compounded by the identity of the killer Jonathan Jackson's boyhood friend, a would—be Hollywood actor hung up on the dream of American success.
A former legislator and an award—winning historian, Neil Rolde is the author of Maine in the World: Stories of Some of Those from Here Who Went Away; Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine; Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians; The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands; and many other books. He lives in York, Maine.
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