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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
3.85 AVERAGE
381 reviews for:
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
3.85 AVERAGE
This book was an excellent read on the assasination of Lincoln. It is full of all kinds of imformation you do not receive in History class. Read this and "The Destiny of the Republic" in order to become educated on several important events in our country's history.
Bill O'Reilly, stop writing your "Killing" books in such a fashion that I start to believe that maybe the President won't be assassinated after all...that maybe history won't unravel the way I know it will!
Bill O'Reilly deftly uses suspense to recount events around the shocking assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The first portion of the book is a bit of a slow-going read, as you experience some of the final battles of the Civil War, but the pace picks up speed once Booth and the other conspirators are introduced. Give it a try!
-- Louisa A. --
-- Louisa A. --
I thought I had a pretty good understanding of Lincoln's killing, but it turns out I didn't until I read this book! It's really interesting and contains vivid details about the assassination of President Lincoln. I'm glad I read this after seeing the movie "Lincoln" because it helped me place faces and people in his administration and family. A very good read that will leave you feeling like you have better insight into this President, the country at the end of the Civil War and his killer, John Wilkes Booth. I also suggest seeing the movie "The Conspirator" after reading the book; it goes into detail about the trial of Mary Surratt.
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Such a good audiobook, listens as a thriller. So much historical information on the plot to kill our beloved 16th president. I really learned a lot of new information from this read.
Fascinating retelling of the two weeks leading up to Lincoln's Assassination. This included Lee's defeat at Petersburg, his retreat, and his final surrender - details of which I didn't not know. I feel sad thinking about Lincoln's Assassination, and the deluded thinking behind it. It is so strange to me that had one or two details been different Lincoln would have been spared, or at least, not on that day. It is also interesting to note he died on Easter Sunday.
p.11 Lee's attempted escape to the Blue Ridge Mountains would not end the war (but lead to guerrilla warfare) citizens in the North would demand an end to the war, and the union would be divided.
p 90: "I always thought that Dixie was one of the best tunes I ever heard. Our adversaries over the way, I know, have attempted to appropriate it. But I insist that yesterday we fairly captured it. . . . It is now our property . . . favor us with a performance."
p 108: trusting the South to peacefully join the Union was going to be as challenging as the war itself.
p.11 Lee's attempted escape to the Blue Ridge Mountains would not end the war (but lead to guerrilla warfare) citizens in the North would demand an end to the war, and the union would be divided.
p 90: "I always thought that Dixie was one of the best tunes I ever heard. Our adversaries over the way, I know, have attempted to appropriate it. But I insist that yesterday we fairly captured it. . . . It is now our property . . . favor us with a performance."
p 108: trusting the South to peacefully join the Union was going to be as challenging as the war itself.
I was not particularly fond of the rapid-fire pace of the writing and the short chapters designed to increase the intensity and obscure the facts - guess I should have known given the author.
I was surprised at how little I knew about the actual conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln and this book delivers all that and more. This is definitely popular level history and not meant as a serious in depth study for historians, and in its role it succeeds greatly. Of particular interest is the characterization of Booth and his conspirators who I had known little about before reading. Overall, a quick and informative read.