The first part guides the reader through the final days of the Civil War, and what lead to the eventual defeat of the Confederates, and the surrender of Robert E. Lee at the end of part one. “The Ides of Death” is the title of part two. This section begins on April 10 with the aftermath and celebration of the Union victory in the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth is plotting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, along with other members of his cabinet. Booth had been planning to kidnap Lincoln during the Civil War to help the Confederacy, but he has since shifted the plans. There are three people other than Booth that are involved with his conspiracy. Part three, “The Long Good Friday,” begins at seven a.m. on Friday, April 14. This is the day that Abraham Lincoln attends the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The events of this section have a lot …show more content…
Killing Kennedy was more a biography and history of JFK and his presidency, while Killing Lincoln was truly about Lincoln’s last days. Killing Lincoln takes a more focused approach and sticks with the assassination and conspiracy around it much more than Killing Kennedy. That is really the biggest difference between the two as far as I am concerned. They both dealt with the assassinations of a President, as well as taking a deeper look into the lives of the assassins. Both of these books were great reads, and I would recommend them to anyone with a love of history. Killing Lincoln is better for people that like war, while Killing Kennedy has more to do with the social aspects of the Presidency, while also looking deep into the life of Kennedy. I personally enjoyed Killing Kennedy much better than I did Killing Lincoln. I feel as if I liked it better because I am not a huge fan of war, and I also did not know much about Kennedy. I have studied a lot about Lincoln, so there was not a lot of new information in this book for me, while I knew very little about