Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Audio Book: 7 hours, 49 mins Hardback Book: 589 pages
Really good telling of the events surrounding the two weeks before Lincoln's death with blow by blow correspondent coverage as though you are there and a news reporter is telling you all about what is transpiring, day by day as it relates to the countdown to his death. Lots of good intel about the participants in this sad part of our American political saga. O'Reilly even walks the reader through his last minutes alive so thoroughly that the reader empathizes with Mary Todd Lincoln and you feel for Mr. Lincoln, still alive and suffering the pain of that bullet lodged behind his eye and when Mary kisses him and touches his cheek, his eyes and faced now bruised from the trauma and she says, 'Speak to me, Love," and he makes the most awful sound as though bubbling up from the inner depths of his soul. Chilling. So much so that Mary fainted. Haunting, too. You can't forget that scene so aptly described. Wow! So many years later and still I cry for this poor couple. So unfair, just when things seemed to be getting better - BAM! One shot changes everything. I highly recommend this book. I think adults will appreciate it most, but, I also think Highschoolers and Middle Schoolers would also benefit from all the intense 'you are there for this time in history' drama. Excellently told story. Particularly enlightening are all the subltle details included that may have eluded readers in earlier tellings. Well done!
- Shirley J.
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