Summary Of Killing Lincoln By Bill O Reilly

In Killing Lincoln, author Bill O’Reilly scribed in vivid detail the account of events beginning weeks before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the days immediately following it. O’Reilly used elements like cliffhangers to show the suspense and drama that surrounded this event. Also, he used the timeline of the story to influence how it was perceived. The book utilized the exaggeration of Lincoln’s personal struggles and his own thoughts about how he must have felt at the time. Essentially, Killing Lincoln used the supposed thoughts of all of the main characters in order to promote drama and give some insight into the personal thoughts of people in that time period. Throughout his novel, O’Reilly took a major advantage of turning

The main reason for the beginning of the Civil War focused on the slavery that infested the southern states. The North was against all forms of slavery and other different practices present in the South. The war drug on for a seemingly infinite amount of time under President Lincoln and his administration as a whole,as well as the president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis. Although these two men made all of the most significant and pressing choices, the two men in charge on the battlefields, and perhaps a greater rivalry than the opposing presidents, were Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E.

Booth was additionally a Confederate follower and had built a secret hatred of Lincoln and all of the Union. Booth chose to partake in an elaborate plot that involved abducting Lincoln and holding him as a hostage until the Confederacy was restored to it’s glory, as he saw it. As Booth became more and more obsessed with this plan, so did his deep hatred for Lincoln. Booth eventually came to the conclusion that abduction was insufficient, and that he needed to kill Lincoln to do his duty. Although, Lincoln was not the only target, Booth had additionally devised plans to remove others from the top of the U.S. government, such as Vice President Andrew Johnson, General Grant, and Seward. However, the only assassination that ultimately was a success was Lincoln’s. Booth's plot to kill all of the officials was complex, and to him depended on all of the assassinations taking place at the exact same time. Booth would kill Lincoln at Ford's Theater, and if the opportunity was presented, he would kill General Grant, but Grant was not present at the theater that night, thanks to his wife. Also, Seward survived the stabbing given to him by Powell, and Atzerodt got extremely drunk and never even showed up to kill Johnson, who would have been an easy