Introduce the Author: Bill O’Reilly is a television host and radio personality, as he hosts “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News. O’Reilly attended Marist College and later taught English and social studies for two years. He then earned a broadcast journalism degree from Boston University. After establishing a media presence, he received a MPA from Harvard in 1996. His co-author, Martin Dugard, has virtually no biographical information available online. He is an avid runner and coach, having coached his girls’ team to the California state championships three times (which qualifies him immensely for writing a history non-fiction work). Yet, he has an impressive slate of work, including “Chasing Lance”, “The Murder of King Tut”, “The Last Voyage …show more content…
He apparently manages to sneak into Ford’s Theater on account of knowing the owner personally, and all the ladies go crazy for him when he is in public. However, O’Reilly presents him in private as a traitor and an uncontrollable maniac, so hell-bent on his plans that he’s obsessive over it. In the standard “good guy, bad guy” analogy, Booth is definitely not the former. While wartime is over, Booth deems it still moral to kill the head of a “foreign adversary” because he is still at war with the Union in his mind. He wants to preserve the Confederacy and die an icon, dying because of the horrors that Lincoln committed. Jackson is sworn in as President, and unfortunately is an incompetent mess compared to Lincoln. Whereas Lincoln wanted to show amity toward the South, Jackson wanted to punish them with a vengeance. The implications reverberated far beyond the White House, however. Booth ends up only bringing the Union stronger together, despite his original goals, since he’s portrayed as a Confederate outlier who can’t accept reality. If anything, Lincoln goes down in history as a martyr who died before he could save his