This book is a must read for students to grasp the assassination of a president and how it has affected us even today. Most people look to Abraham Lincoln as being a martyr while others view him as a man that sacrificed 620,000 lives to collect taxes and save northern manufacturing over southern slaves. "In this time when we 're struggling for leadership--and whether you 're a Republican or a Democrat, you know that we are struggling with leadership in America--we need to go back to a guy like Abraham Lincoln and understand what made him great," O 'Reilly says. (56-59) The book Killing Lincoln has several strong points in that it is pretty accurate and does give a pretty detailed accounting of President Lincolns last days. The telling of the way things progressed from character to character seemed to work with thw writing style of the co-authors. The book also has a few weak points as it seemed to skip around a little with back and forth on the dates of the way the author told about the storylines of the
This book is a must read for students to grasp the assassination of a president and how it has affected us even today. Most people look to Abraham Lincoln as being a martyr while others view him as a man that sacrificed 620,000 lives to collect taxes and save northern manufacturing over southern slaves. "In this time when we 're struggling for leadership--and whether you 're a Republican or a Democrat, you know that we are struggling with leadership in America--we need to go back to a guy like Abraham Lincoln and understand what made him great," O 'Reilly says. (56-59) The book Killing Lincoln has several strong points in that it is pretty accurate and does give a pretty detailed accounting of President Lincolns last days. The telling of the way things progressed from character to character seemed to work with thw writing style of the co-authors. The book also has a few weak points as it seemed to skip around a little with back and forth on the dates of the way the author told about the storylines of the