Killing Lincoln

• SnotBubbles

  

  Is it based on actual events?
  
  I'll wait for it to come out on teh Netflix.
• Oldman82

  This is a legit post. I have not read the book but it's on my list. The author sure pumps it up as a great book!
• thavoice

  SnotBubbles;1059237 wrote:Is it based on actual events?
  
  I'll wait for it to come out on teh Netflix.

  Movies always change stuff that was in the book. After hollywood changes it ya probably have Lincoln banging some black chick, and Lee Harvy Oswald was someone sent back from the future by hitler to try and stop what Lincoln was doing.
• Heretic

  

  thavoice;1059265 wrote:Movies always change stuff that was in the book. After hollywood changes it ya probably have Lincoln banging some black chick, and Lee Harvy Oswald was someone sent back from the future by hitler to try and stop what Lincoln was doing.

  I would watch this.
• Tiernan

  Lincoln's already hunting vampires in a movie coming out on his B-day.
• Skyhook79

  

  Not a movie but will be on Nat Geographic in 2013.
  
  http://www.imdb.com/news/ni20964463/
• isadore

  Read American Brutus
• Ironman92

  

  Ima Jim Teachur....cannot reed.
  
  Hop thiz hlpz
• imex99

  

  I listen to audio boooks while driving, just downloaded Hunger Games and Killing Lincoln is next on my list.....
• Skyhook79

  

  imex99;1059914 wrote:I listen to audio boooks while driving, just downloaded Hunger Games and Killing Lincoln is next on my list.....

  Whose voice do they use for the Killing Lincoln audio book Dugard or O'Reilly?
• imex99

  

  Skyhook79;1059985 wrote:Whose voice do they use for the Killing Lincoln audio book Dugard or O'Reilly?

  
  Audible website says O'Reilly. Trying to finish others before I download, don't want to use my monthly credit yet.
  You can listen to audio samples on audible.com
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  I will not and have not read this book, it has way too many errors. One of them is there was a meeting in the Oval Office, hello that wasn't created until the 20th century. It flies in the face of historical writings.
• gport_tennis

  ptown_trojans_1;1060961 wrote:I will not and have not read this book, it has way too many errors. One of them is there was a meeting in the Oval Office, hello that wasn't created until the 20th century. It flies in the face of historical writings.

  
  so I take it then that you will not be seeing the movie where president lincoln hunts vampires
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  gport_tennis;1060967 wrote:so I take it then that you will not be seeing the movie where president lincoln hunts vampires

  lol, that is not being promoted a history, but entertainment. The Killing Lincoln book was marketed as a historical piece to add to the genre of Lincoln. But, any historian that reads it quickly finds numerous errors that take away from the validity of the story.
  
  And yes, I will probably see the movie.
  I'll also probably see Spielberg's portray of Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln in December.
• GoPens

  

  I can't wait to see DDL as Lincoln.
  
  I also won't read this book because I too have heard it's full of errors.
  
  A good Lincoln read is "Manhunt: The 12-Day Search for Lincoln's Killer" by James Swanson.
• gport_tennis

  GoPens;1060989 wrote:I can't wait to see DDL as Lincoln.
  
  I also won't read this book because I too have heard it's full of errors.
  
  A good Lincoln read is "Manhunt: The 12-Day Search for Lincoln's Killer" by James Swanson.

  
  Probably should just give him the Oscar all ready. That movie is going to be sweet
• GoPens

  

  
• Laley23

  

  thavoice;1059265 wrote:Movies always change stuff that was in the book. After hollywood changes it ya probably have Lincoln banging some black chick, and Lee Harvy Oswald was someone sent back from the future by hitler to try and stop what Lincoln was doing.

  Cause Bill O'Reilly will have all the facts from something 200 years ago??? I get what you are saying, but books like this are always full of inaccuracies as well. But its worse because people think its all true. At least in movies we know going in they are changing stuff from history for entertainment.
• Skyhook79

  

  ptown_trojans_1;1060961 wrote:I will not and have not read this book, it has way too many errors. One of them is there was a meeting in the Oval Office, hello that wasn't created until the 20th century. It flies in the face of historical writings.

  
  
  Are these the errors you are talking about? lol
  
  “The narrative contains numerous errors of people, place, and events,” writes reviewer Edward Steers Jr., author of more than five books on the Lincoln assassination. He goes on to list about 10 errors of fact in “Killing Lincoln,” which O’Reilly co-authored with Martin Dugard and which has been atop bestseller lists for weeks.
  A farm where John Wilkes Booth hid after the killing was not 500 acres, as O’Reilly says. It was 217 acres, according to the review.
  O’Reilly refers to John Ford’s chief carpenter as John J. Clifford. In fact, according to the review, his name was Gifford.
  “Lewis Powell, the man assigned to kill secretary of state William Seward, did not speak with ‘an Alabama drawl.’ He was from Florida,” the review notes
  
  In one instance, the book claims Ford's Theatre was burned down in 1863 when it was actually destroyed in the end of 1862. The book contains multiple references to Lincoln in the Oval Office, which wasn't built until decades after his death. It also includes the line "He furls his brow"; furl is a nautical term, the correct word is furrows.
  
  
  O'Reilly's response:
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/oreilly-says-errors-corrected-in-killing-lincoln/2011/11/15/gIQA66MpON_blog.html
  
  Oliver Stone would be proud to have that few of mistakes.