“To understand why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, you need first know that very peculiar Booth family”. Asia Booth Clark, his sister, confidant and closest friend, had a front row seat to history. A member of one of America’s most colorful, theatrical dynasties: Her father, “The Mad Tragedian,” her brother “the prince of players, and her other brother, "the most hated man in America". With humor and the trademark Booth theatricality, she shares stories of the many triumphs, scandals and tragedies of the Booths as well as some little-known facts about that great national tragedy that forever changed her life and the country we live in. A sister's story.