Vicki Lu
IB HOA 1
Byrne
1/29/13
Throughout the book Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths, Stephen B. Oates displays a well organized, and factual biography of Abraham Lincoln that conveys the hardships that Lincoln overcame while he was in presidency. The set up of his book is the time line of Lincoln’s life from his childhood, to his middle years, and ending with his death at Ford’s Theater. But more historically, this book is based on slavery, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln’s Inaugural Address, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, but this all ties into Lincoln wanting to become the president to help his country.
The start of the books begins with Abraham Lincoln as a middle aged man. Oates states how he is very secretive and from one
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He disliked how the south was creating new slave states, and how it was slowly making slavery permanent in America, this led him to become the head of the Republicans to fight for what he believed in. Another boulder was how stubborn the South was to end slavery. It is true that they needed it because of all the farm land and labor that was needed to be done, it would just be easier to do the chores by utilizing slaves, but Lincoln believed that, that was unethical to use people to their advantage. To overcome this, Lincoln made the Emancipation and the Gettysburg Address (consisting of 4 major parts; to help the government, “all men created equal” (Oates 138), outlaw old leaders in rebel Dixie, and lastly obeying the Emancipation Proclamation) these were a mandatory part of Reconstruction. There is also the dispute between Douglas and Lincoln that Lincoln “desired intermarriage and racial mongrelization” (Oates 71), stated by Douglas. Lincoln just wanted to end slavery, he didn’t wanted to have anything to do with personal choices of african americans and white; ultimately making it look like he supported slavery, this infuriated him.From that statement people started to label Lincoln as a white supremacist, which backlashes everything that Lincoln had always fought for. In addition to that statement, Douglas also held a high position than Lincoln at that time, so there was nothing …show more content…
It was a bit confusing in the beginning, because it started with historians criticizing how awful of a president Lincoln was and these people made misconceptions of Lincoln. The beginning summed up what the whole book was about, and I didn’t understand where the book really “began.” It tended to jump around with his age in the beginning start when he was a child to when he was 40, back to 21, then it started to go in order when the book “actually started”. Even though it was a bit out of order and confusing, it was very effective because he still allowed it to transition smoothly from. In addition, I was fully engaged the whole time and the book did not go off track; any statement that Oates made linked into the next paragraph making me intrigued by the facts displayed about Abraham Lincoln. . The book is also balanced with its facts and commentary. In the beginning there were a bit too much bias opinions in my opinion, but when the book started to really get into Lincoln’s story, it evened out. Oates displayed some commentary now and then and the commentaries of other Lincoln historians, but always backed it up with facts just in case the reader had any doubts.Throughout the book, there were no illustrations, or charts, but Oates does make convey good imagery throughout his writing, so I could imagine the scenery of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. The book covers
Brandon Smith Mr.Dittmar 12/14/2014 American History Book Report #2 “Killing Lincoln” Killing Lincoln is a very good easy to read historical book. I already knew some about when Lincoln was shot and how he died but this book put in so much more little details that any other thing I have gotten information from. I feel like Bill O'Rreilly did a very good job writing this book. I really like the way that it was wrote using the time and different days for the chapters. That helped give the book some detail and helped me understand what was going on in the book and when important scenes were easier to understand.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard attempts to dissect the assassination of the sixteenth president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln. Rather than just telling the simple story of Lincoln being shot in the back of the head at the Ford Theatre, this book goes into great detail to show what various characters from this pivotal time in history were thinking, feeling, and trying to overcome. Bill O’Reilly is no stranger to writing books. Other pieces by Bill are: Killing Reagan, Killing Jesus, Killing Kennedy and many other great pieces of literature that go into great detail to explain the final days of major historical figures. The fact that O’Reilly has
Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book, Killing Lincoln, is mainly about President Lincoln’s time as President of the United States. Little do people know that Lincoln was hated by many Americans. President Lincoln’s assassination was slowly being planned out by a murder named John Wilkes Booth. Despite his careful planning, Booth’s plans had to be suddenly changed at the last minute when his plans to change. Booth immediately had to come up with a new plan and go a total different route.
Though it can be nauseatingly biased at times the story can at times be quite the page turner. All in all this book could work well for fans of Bill O’Reilly and novice history buffs as a jumping off point for further research into the Lincoln
They wanted the South to be severely punished for their crimes. The debate between Lincoln and the radical republicans was fierce, it also had many consequences. Lincoln wanted nothing to do with war or conflict. His whole plan for reconstruction was focused on peace and prosperity for the country, he simply wanted the nation to forget their differences and become unified under one commander. Lincoln wanted a peaceful end to slavery, although the 13th amendment had been passed and slaves were emancipated everywhere.
Ramsey 4/28/17 Lincoln and Arthur Ashe When reading the excerpts of both A Lincoln Preface and Arthur Ashe Remembered I liked the way both writers wrote. The style of these are what caused me to have such a positive reaction to them.
This research paper is going to review Abraham Lincoln’s life and accomplishments. The goal is explain to the reader thoroughly about Lincoln’s life. I do this by researching his life including his birth, personal life, education, career, and what he is best known for. He was our 15th president and is best known for signing the Emancipation Proclamation. This act freed all African-American slaves that were in the confederacy.
Over all the book is more than just a collection of the diary and letters mashed together into a book, the author talks about what is going on at the time McClellan is writing his letters before showing them to us, he also helps the reader a lot with footnotes of places, people and events throughput the redaction, also citing his own research within the book, it is easy to read since they are letters and a diary, they were more of a narrative than a regular history book which made it more interesting. The author mainly uses primary sources such as letters, something I found interesting was that the author also picked letters addressed to him. I felt like the author did a great job and made the book really easy to follow, but I felt like the book lacked that attention grasp, it was smooth read and in all honestly not hard, but I always look for a book that grasps my attention for a long time span. When reading this book, even thought the footnotes where at the end of each letter or diary entry it was tedious having to turn the page when I did not know about a concept.
Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and folk musician. Sandburg was born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois. “Carl Sandburg is the only American poet ever to address Congress” (“A Workingman’s poet”). He would compose his poetry in free verse. “If it jells into free verse, all right.
History class to many falls as a just another boring lesson, memorizing facts you will never use. The year America got it’s independence, the dates of the end of World War 1 and 2- all forgotten by the time you graduate. These facts may seem useless, but behind each one, their is a story with so many valiant people, a story with people who must be forever condemned, and facts that we can always use. In the book, Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, written by James L. Swanson, there is one such story about the death of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt that followed. What is really important about this story is that the attackers of this night always be condemned, as well as to note the amazing effort of our country coming together with tips.
Abraham Lincoln was one of America’s greatest presidents .Knowed to the world as the “Great emancipator”, Abraham Lincoln left a legacy behind. As the 16th president Lincoln managed to save the nation, he took the first step towards abolishing slavery, allowed blacks to join the military, gave his world famous Gettysburg speech, and many more. To many people Abraham Lincoln was a hero, to others he was a man with a questionable motive. Through the eyes of Hofstader, Abraham Lincoln was a man who was inconsistent with his beliefs not only as a president but a politician as well. In the first few paragraphs, Hofstadter illustrates Lincoln as being a self made politician that used his “unfortunate upbringings” to further advance his political career.
He is not biased while he describes the good and the bad of both men, and he represents his facts well. Going as far as to find actual letters written by the friends and colleagues of the two men. I have not seen many books that go to as great lengths to achieve complete historical accuracy while describing a figure from history. For example, I had not known that Andrew Jackson and his friends were real estate moguls that traded in conquered lands. They did so even when the lands did not even belong to the people they had conquered.
Douglas, was an important election that would, and did, go down in history. Lincoln had opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, created by Stephen Douglas, which lead him into becoming a Republican. Here, nobody was able to Compromise. He ran against Stephen Douglas, and won the election with getting one hundred eighty electoral votes, and Douglas getting twelve (Southern Democrat Breckinridge seventy-two, and Constitutional Union Bell getting thirty-nine) (Doc H).
The author made this biography so that when you read it you read it you go "really I never knew that" or "I thought this happened because of this reason not because of that". For example on page 14 it talks about how when Thomas (Abraham 's father) was trying to relocate the family from Kentucky he claimed to have bought five other farms but were taken away because he never paid for them. That 's how they ended up in Indiana because he had the money to pay for a little house in the woods. This did actually surprise me because I thought that Abraham grew up in his home cabin with his mom and dad in Kentucky. Really he lived in Indiana with his dad
Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. were both born 120 years apart. They were also killed ten days apart in the same month, years apart of course. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. were one of the biggest influences on Slavery and Civil Rights. As well as being great leaders during their times. Both of these men were similar, but also had their differences.