Innovation in literature can be seen as the birth of a new genre, or a hybrid of two already existing ones. Or we can also talk about a thematic innovation. Billy O'Reilly has taken care to create a kind of theme about the great homicides in history. Assassinations, deicides and other acts of animosity aimed at world leaders in religion, politics or whatever. The famous TV presenter relies on the historian Martin Dugard to accurately divulge all his narrative proposals.
A singular idea without a doubt. A daring historical review of the events that led in each case to the murder of the man at the hands of man. The History it can be linked by the sinister intervention of man and his will to intervene in natural designs. Premeditated plans or the inescapable inertia of the history of humanity? Undoubtedly a collection that must be taken into account in order to understand our evolution as a chain of murderous wills. If you are looking for an interesting, different and extremely transcendental library, this set is what you were looking for, because it has signs of continuity ...
For now, in the case of Billy O'Reilly, the selection of your three best books I have it easy. There are only three copies published for as many historical figures. So let's go with the subjective order of pre-eminence that I can establish for the whole.
Top 3 recommended books by Billy O'Reilly
Kill Kennedy
The secret files surrounding the Kennedy assassination have recently been declassified. Some more speculation about contacts with spies, about shadowy assassins and little else. The full light of the case may be buried forever. Billy O'Reilly elaborates on the case, surprising with his complete perspective on this murder. The White Houses, also known as Camelot, as a kingdom where anything can happen.
Summary: In January 1961, in the midst of the escalation of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy tries to stop the spread of communism while facing the adversity, loneliness and temptations that come with being the president of the United States. His young and beautiful wife Jackie also has to adapt to living under the constant scrutiny of public opinion.
Despite the difficult personal and political tests that Kennedy has to overcome, his popularity skyrockets. On the other hand, JFK makes great enemies: the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and the director of the CIA Allen Dulles.
The heavy-handed policy of his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, against powerful elements of organized crime adds more names to the list of sworn enemies of the president. And finally, during a pre-election trip to Texas in 1963, Kennedy is fatally shot that throws the nation into chaos. Jackie and the entire country mourn her death as the hunt for her authors begins.
The vicissitudes that led to the most infamous murder of the twentieth century are almost as dramatic as the assassination itself. A gripping chronicle from beginning to end, Killing Kennedy describes the heroism and falsehoods of the Court of Camelot, bringing history to life and moving us.
Kill jesus
If there is an assassination or deicide in our History, it is the murder of Jesus Christ. Seen at the time as the execution of a rebel, the global significance of that event would never have been imagined at the time. Bill O'Reilly looks at everything that happened around the death of the son of God.
Summary: Almost two thousand years after this beloved and controversial revolutionary was brutally assassinated by the soldiers of Rome, more than two thousand two hundred million people live striving to follow his message and believe him to be the son of God.
In this fascinating account of the life and times of Jesus based on true events, some of the many legendary figures from history portrayed are Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist.
Killing Jesus not only plunges readers fully into that unstable time, but also recounts the radical political and historical events that made Jesus' death inevitable… and changed the world forever.
Kill Lincoln
The United States is one of the few countries (probably the only one in the West) in which two of its presidents have been violently killed at the hands of their most vicious detractors. Between Kennedy and Lincoln, this second has gained more literature by being more remote. The conspiracy theories of a Kennedy in the middle of the cold war turn into epic and historical betrayal in the case of Lincoln.
Summary: Amid the patriotic festivities of the city of Washington, the charismatic actor John Wilkes Booth, womanizer and unrepentant racist, assassinates Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater. The furious police hunt that is organized immediately makes Booth the most wanted fugitive in the nation.
Clever but unreliable New York detective Lafayette C. Baker and a former Unionist spy unravels all the leads to Booth as federal forces hunt down his accomplices. The exciting search drive ends in a fierce shooting and several death sentences, including that of the first woman to be executed in the United States, Mary Surratt.
With its vivid portraits of some of history's most notable figures and a plot that forces you to read on to the end, Killing Lincoln is history, but it feels like a mystery novel.
