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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
My sister sat on the edge of her seat in the movie theater, awaiting the outcome of Ron Howard's depiction of Apollo 13's epic lunar adventure. I recall laughingly teasing her after the movie's end, "Don't you know what happened?" Well, in likewise fashion I sat with my fingers poised on each page's corner of O'Reilly's "Killing Lincoln." Ultimately, of course, I knew what happened to our sixteenth president, but O'Reilly writes this book with a masterful amount of intrigue. With each passing chapter, new-to-me details were uncovered and presented in a rapid succession. Truth is stranger than fiction, and this book and the plot to kill Lincoln revealed many supposed coincidences that can only be deemed too strange to be fictionalized. Perhaps O'Reilly is not a learned scholar or a PhD, but many history books would benefit from the creative efforts of the likes of him. History has a story to tell, and we must present it to all generations in innovative ways, so it's not just a dry paragraph in some stuffy textbook.