Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever (Paperback)

from horomnizon

First, let me say that I love stuff about the Civil War, so that's why I picked this one up. I'm not going to agree that it reads like a 'thriller' - after all, it's nonfiction and historical, so you know what's going to happen....in a thriller, you don't and that's what makes it thrilling. Howev...

from OccamsHammer

'Killing Lincoln' is Bill O'Reilly's first book dealing with American history. The book covers the last days of the Civil War. Lincoln prepares for the daunting task of rebuilding the nation while John Wilkes Booth begins his conspiracy to make the President pay for the South losing the war. This...

from amramey

Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America. New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2011. 313 pp. $28.00. Bill O'Reilly is America's favorite political commentator as well as a bestselling author of ten books. Likewise, Martin Dugard is a bestselling au...

from ertreada

This is a great book that chronicles the last week of the civil War and the life and Abraham Lincoln, an easy read that places the reader in key events in history. The reader is alongside Grant and Lee at Appomattox Courthouse as the south surrenders, in John Wilkes Booth's bedroom as the assigna...

from BookerBoy

Exciting, excellent......the way I wish history would have been taught in my high school classroom. Written in a flowing narrative style this book kept me on the edge of my seat chapter to chapter. The book opens with the war's ending events: Grant's race to cut off Lee's escape to the Carolina's...