The book, Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard is a tightly written book about the last days of the Lincoln presidency. Starting with his second inaugural speech and ending with the investigation of his assassination. The authors provide more details into the activities of John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators as they work on a plan to take down the US government.
The last battles of the Civil War are also described in rather graphic detail giving a sense of the raw brutality of the battles. The back history of Lee and Grant provides a better depth of understanding between the two very different men.
Lincoln's sleepless nights and realization that his time on earth may be short cast a foreboding shadow over the future. This is an excellently written suspense thriller that provides gritty details to a very tragic era in American History.
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A section from the audio book
The book, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever is available from Amazon.com
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