Manhunt (Swanson)

Discussion Questions 
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Also consider these LitLovers talking points to help get a discussion started for Manhunt: 

1. Swanson tells part of his story through Booth's voice, which as a novelistic technique encourages readers to identify with a character. Do you think that Swanson makes Booth a sympathetic antihero?

2. In the above interview (under Author Bio), Swanson suggests that we have gained enough distance from Lincoln's assasination to create a certain "myth" surrounding Booth. Will that ever be true for Lee Harvey Oswald...or the 9/11 perpetrators? Does distance from an event create a certain mythology? Does it create a more objective lens through which to view an event?

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