New O'Reilly Children's Book

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I have read Killing Lincoln and I enjoyed it. I don't believe it to be the best, or even top 5 books on the subject. I will say that it was an easy read, it barely took me a few days to finish. Which sometimes is a good thing. I liked the timelines, it was very easy to understand, it was more of a cliff's notes. When I bought it I wasn't looking for it to be the affinitive book on Booth or Lincoln, I was just interested in a different point of view. I do believe because of the simplicity of the book that it could attract people to further educate themselves on the subject. There are so many great books written that once people have a basic understanding ( which I believe O'Reilly gives ) I really think they would want to tackle more. I think The only real criticism I have on the book is that he states it is truth. "No Spin", but he delved right into alot of conspiracies about Stanton and Baker but kept backing off. If you are going to go there, go there. I don't think hinting at it, then backing off multiple times just to say that you don't want to go into conspiracies makes you anymore credible. If that was what he believes, then it might have been fun to here it.