The Reason Lincoln Had to Die

[L Verge]

I am admitting defeat and taking off my reading glasses. Over the past ten days or so, I have attempted to read The Reason Lincoln Had To Die. From my very first skimming, I knew that the theme would once again be that Stanton "did it" and that the Radical Republicans wanted things their way. This Southerner just wanted something new and different to prove that the Yankees were behind it all....

However, after about 75 pages, I just can't go any further. When I was introduced by this author to a new, and seemingly powerful, new source - the writings of Henry J. Raymond and Francis B. Carpenter on the collection of Lincoln letters, telegrams, messages, speeches, etc., I actually thought something good was going to come out of this book.

So far as I can tell, the author had a great chance to expose some new details, but failed to connect-the-dots (if there were indeed dots). Instead of documented evidence, the author continued to speculate, make suppositions, and resort to repetition, repetition, repetition. I just can't take the time to finish each page with the hope that I will find a wonderful statement of fact or even a reasonable clue. I have spent over fifty years of my life searching for those in other similar books, and this old lady is tired!