lunchbox89 's review for:

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

4.0

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I listened to this as an audiobook, and I’m glad I did. Bill O’Reilly writes that the book is written like a thriller, and his narration holds up to that. This is a story that most of us already know, but O’Reilly presents the last few weeks of Lincoln’s life with such detail that it places you in 1865, on the last battlefields of the civil war, and in the White House with an anxious Mr. Lincoln. Of course I know what ultimately happens over the course of the story, but I still found myself caught up in the moments, hoping that Lincoln would choose to stay home and not go to the theater that night, or hoping that Booth’s odd behavior would give him away before he could follow through. So many little decisions that lead to and put people in the right (or wrong) place at the right (wrong) time; ending in such a devastating tragedy.