A review by suzan_loves_books_131
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

4.0

I enjoyed this book and learned things about President Lincoln's assassination that I didn't know or had forgotten about. It also covers the last battle of the Civil War and Robert E. Lee surrendering, which I thought was very interesting. It reminded me what a terrible thing it was for our nation to be so divided, at war with each other, killing each other. I don't think the authors intended this book to be a scholarly work or to be great literature, but, as O'Reilly stated in the preface, they wanted it to read as a 'thriller', and it does. It is a page-turner. I would probably have given it 4 stars but I really didn't care for the frequent times the authors wrote what someone was feeling or thinking, surmising, but writing it more as fact. That gave the book a fictional, less credible feel. Also, there were things I was really curious about and would like to have known where they got their information, but there were no footnotes or sources. I wish they would have included that.