When did the communist left decide to be concerned about revisionist history? They’ve been preaching it for 50 years. What little American history still being taught in “schools” is nothing but pure bovine scatology.
How unprofessional. Wonder if BOR plays fast and loose with his ‘facts’ as he puts together his dog and pony show on FOX as well.
O'Reilly isn't someone I would turn to for original information. Everything he does is derivative even when he's quite correct about things he's willing to pontificate about.
I had hoped this WaPo piece would be more informative about the poor scholarship. The acreage of Dr. Mudd's farm? The number of times Our American Cousin had played at Fords before the fateful interrupted performance? I can dismiss those sorts of irrelevancies by concluding O'Reilly's book is like a lot of his work. An arrested adolescent's equivalent to children's literature, as O'Reilly would dismiss them, "for 'the Folks.'"
Only thing you got to know about Lincolns assasination was he was killed by a famous actor who go his career from his daddy, who hated Republicans, and wanted the Government to keep blacks enslaved. In essence Sean Penn.
I also noticed there was a book about Lincoln the Vampire Slayer.
Ted Baxter strikes again!
Well, the Washington Post gets facts wrong and misspells words every freaking day. I guess that means we should ignore everything you print because of it.
But, the WaPo's writer can't write, himself.
"According to Steers, the authors misidentified theater owner John Ford’s chief carpenter as James J. Clifford when his name actually was James J. Gifford."
Levingston didn’t have a problem with the liar who wrote a book about Sarah Palin...
What a scam! According to the article, Bill O’Reilly “researched” his book by reading all of the other books written about Lincoln and then wrote his book. Seriously, what new information could O’Reilly possibly reveal? All of the players have been dead for 100 years or more!
I feel sorry for all of the genuine historians without famous names that did all of the hard work and actually researched their books just to see O’Reilly take their work and re-word it into a best-seller and make millions while doing it. Plus, he’s going to “write” two more books!
Another thing, his TV show seems like a commercial for his books. I can’t turn the channel quick enough when he’s plugging his books. He no sooner finishes plugging the last book and he’s then plugging the next one.
My wife bought me one of his books several years ago. It was terrible. Many of the “points” were infantile.
His name is mudd now...
I didn’t realize the editors of the magazine “North and South...” are communists.
Off topic
Putting together some books for a 14 year old boy for Christmas. Bishop’s “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” is on that list. I read it at about that age (more than 50 years ago) and am wondering if it is still considered “non-fiction” today, or should I drop it from my list?
Thanks in advance
Ford’s Theater IS selling the book.’