AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BESTSELLING AUTHOR, BRAD MELTZER First, congratulations on your newest release, The Lincoln Conspiracy: The First Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—and Why It Failed (Flatiron Books). After your last book co-written with Josh Mensch, The First Conspiracy, was so widely acclaimed, it looks like readers can expect very much the same thing from The Lincoln Conspiracy just a year later. Did you know you would be writing about this first “secret” assassination attempt of Abraham Lincoln when you released The First Conspiracy? What made you choose this moment of American history as the next story to examine more closely? We’re sneaky. We knew all along that after the secret plot to kill George 6
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