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Bill O’Reilly strongly defended his best-selling “Killing Lincoln” book on Monday after the Ford’s Theatre bookstore refused to sell it because of alleged historical inaccuracies.
The Fox News host told POLITICO that the attack on his book about President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is “a concerted effort by people who don’t like me to diminish the book.”
In a historical review of “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever,” Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site deputy Superintendent Rae Emerson on Saturday slammed the book’s “lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”
As for readers, Amazon.com counts 1,133 customer reviews of O’Reilly’s book as of Monday afternoon, with 845 rating it worthy of just one star and many commenting that it is riddled with historical inaccuracies. Only 180 shoppers give the book a five star review. It appears that at least some of the negative reviews on Amazon are being ginned up by supporters of Ron Paul on the Web who are encouraging the “Amazon blowback” because of an unrelated dispute with the Fox host.
The Fox News host told POLITICO that the attack on his book about President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is “a concerted effort by people who don’t like me to diminish the book.”
Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean slammed Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday over his latest book about the assassination of President Lincoln.
The official Lincoln Museum at Ford’s Theatre has refused to sell the book because it is riddled with factual errors and lacks proper documentation.
“I stopped counting at 12 serious errors,” Dean said on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
He said the book was an insult to “serious” writers who attempt to show scholarship in their work.