Book Review Killing Lincoln
Austin Smith
Book Review
Killing Lincoln
This past month I have been reading Bill Oreillys killing Lincoln. This book shows Lincolns process of ending slavery and dealing with the civil war. The book tells the story of our president trying to do good things, while John Wilkes Booth is planning to do a really bad deed by killing Lincoln. This book shows us that Lincoln had a lot on his plate dealing with the Civil war and the criticism from the south. He was obviously not supported in the south but he did what he thought was right for this great nation and made a decision that changed America forever. The book begins by showing Lincoln in the final days of the Civil war waiting anxiously to hear results of the battles that took place. This was perhaps my favorite part of the book. Military history has always fascinated me. This book details the amazing battle of two of the greatest generals in United States history. Ulysses S. Grant vs. Robert E. Lee. It shows that they both were very bold men and wanted to win. In my opinion this book shows that no man other than Lincoln did more to win the war than Grant. This gave Grant the edge of being the better general between the two. After the book moves past the civil war, it shows Booth’s plot to kill the president.
In the book although Lincoln won the war, he knew that his job was not over as president. He came up with other plans to enforce the laws in the south. The whole time he was doing this John Wilkes Booth was planning his assassination. On April 14, 1865 Lincoln went to ford theatre to watch the play “Our American Cousin” it was there that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head from point blank range. Lincoln was carried to a town house across the street where he lived in the state of a Coma for 8 hours. Many doctors offered to help but there was nothing that could be done. This made Lincoln the first president to ever be assassinated. The ending of the book was not what I
Book Review
Killing Lincoln
This past month I have been reading Bill Oreillys killing Lincoln. This book shows Lincolns process of ending slavery and dealing with the civil war. The book tells the story of our president trying to do good things, while John Wilkes Booth is planning to do a really bad deed by killing Lincoln. This book shows us that Lincoln had a lot on his plate dealing with the Civil war and the criticism from the south. He was obviously not supported in the south but he did what he thought was right for this great nation and made a decision that changed America forever. The book begins by showing Lincoln in the final days of the Civil war waiting anxiously to hear results of the battles that took place. This was perhaps my favorite part of the book. Military history has always fascinated me. This book details the amazing battle of two of the greatest generals in United States history. Ulysses S. Grant vs. Robert E. Lee. It shows that they both were very bold men and wanted to win. In my opinion this book shows that no man other than Lincoln did more to win the war than Grant. This gave Grant the edge of being the better general between the two. After the book moves past the civil war, it shows Booth’s plot to kill the president.
In the book although Lincoln won the war, he knew that his job was not over as president. He came up with other plans to enforce the laws in the south. The whole time he was doing this John Wilkes Booth was planning his assassination. On April 14, 1865 Lincoln went to ford theatre to watch the play “Our American Cousin” it was there that John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head from point blank range. Lincoln was carried to a town house across the street where he lived in the state of a Coma for 8 hours. Many doctors offered to help but there was nothing that could be done. This made Lincoln the first president to ever be assassinated. The ending of the book was not what I