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“In Confronting Bad History, Gorman enlightens a new generation on how this conspiracy story was always rooted in the Myth of the Lost Cause and white supremacy.” Dave Taylor, Historian and Author of LincolnConspirators.com

“Americans love conspiracy theories. The theory Booth escaped justice was tried in a court of law, and the author goes witness by witness through the trial and explains the outcome.” Stan Haynes, Author of The First American Political Conventions (Three Volume Series)

"Gorman, the Baltimore attorney who kept the conspiracy fans from digging up the body of John Wilkes Booth, persuasively frames the 1907 story of a Booth afterlife as a Lost Cause effort to obscure the crime of the Lincoln assassination." Scott Shane, former reporter for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun, author of Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland

 “Gorman has written an historically important book about Booth and the 1995 exhumation trial in Baltimore, describing the history and testimony and cross-examinations of petitioners, history scholars and historians, scientists, and forensic anthropologists.” Harwood Nichols, Author and Historian

“Confronting Bad History is a compelling story about the 1995 trial over whether to exhume Booth’s body.” William P. Binzel, President, The Surratt Society and past-President of the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia