Killing Lincoln By Bill O ' Reilly And Martin Dugard

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Killing Lincoln by Bill O 'Reilly and Martin Dugard is a book that captures the days leading up to and surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s death. The purpose of this book is to give the reader insight about anything relating to President Abraham Lincoln in his final days.
Bill O’Reilly hosts his own news television show called “The O’Reilly Factor” which is aired on the Fox News Channel where he talks about political issues. He has written many other books with Dugard like Killing Kenn edy: The End of Camelot, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault
T hat Changed a Presidency, a nd Killing Jesus: A History. These are mostly about assassinations or deaths of political, religious, and other figures. Therefore, O’Reilly and Dugard are qualified to write this book, because they are both historical authors. The content of this book is in chronological order. Each chapter is prefaced with a date and location and/or time. The authors use both primary and secondary sources as a part of a realistic approach to relay the events surrounding President Abraham Lincoln 's death. They drew from memoirs and documents written during that period as well as books and resources writtenabout that period. There are many pictures in this book, most of which are of maps of the battle grounds, towns, and significant figures, such as General Grant, John Booth, and Abraham
Lincoln.
Part one of this book contains chapters one through fifteen, which covers the timespan of
April 1-9 1865, and mostly
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