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A review by celenac
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer, Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
5.0
In a nutshell, The Lincoln Conspiracy is mainly about the Baltimore Plot, the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln before his first inauguration. However, that doesn't adequately describe the amount of things this book covers. It covers so much, like who Lincoln was as a person, his humble beginnings, the extreme political tension during the 1860s, the Civil War, the origins of the first US detective agency, etc. Even with all that, this book never felt unorganized or like it was dragging on when I was reading it. The writing is clean and easy to follow. Meltzer gives really good context to a lot of notable people mentioned, like Allan Pinkerton and Frederick Douglass, without going off on tangents. Every piece of background info Meltzer brings up is crucial to understanding this story, and it makes for an overall clean and easy read.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It read like a thriller, which isn't surprising since Meltzer seems to write mostly thrillers. The writing was a bit dramatic at times, especially at the end of each chapter to create cliff hangers, but I didn't mind it -- it kept me wanting to read more. I actually didn't want this book to end. If Meltzer wrote a separate book covering the whole Civil War, I'd read that in a flash because I think he can make anything in history interesting and fun to read.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It read like a thriller, which isn't surprising since Meltzer seems to write mostly thrillers. The writing was a bit dramatic at times, especially at the end of each chapter to create cliff hangers, but I didn't mind it -- it kept me wanting to read more. I actually didn't want this book to end. If Meltzer wrote a separate book covering the whole Civil War, I'd read that in a flash because I think he can make anything in history interesting and fun to read.