This is the story of the greatest genius the American stage has ever known. It is the story of a man who knew peaks of personal triumph and depths of personal desolation, the story of a character-sweet, generous and strong. Central to them all is the man whom millions idolized-and only a handful knew; the actor whose voice could send a thrill through the most worldly as well as the most lowly; the human being who, after Lincoln's assassination, never again mentioned the name of his ill-starred brother, but in whose bedroom until the day of his death the picture of John Wilkes Booth still hun