Roosevelt, who led the United States through the war and started the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, is quickly painted as a full-blown human rights offender. "Instant death from a bomb might be preferable to the agonizing murders being perpetrated by the Japanese." "Douglas MacArthur's rationale for not allowing aerial bombardment of Manila is that the lives of innocent civilians will be endangered, yet the horrors being inflicted upon the Filipino people defy description," he writes. MacArthur, O'Reilly writes, was a raging publicity hound whose desire to retake the Philippines after he had to flee in 1942 turned into a violent debacle in which Japanese soldiers killed innocent Filipinos. Douglas MacArthur and moving on to President Franklin Roosevelt. He gleefully busts reputations and myths, starting with Gen. O'Reilly's TV shtick as a lonely, brave truth teller gets an ample workout here.
Killing the Rising Sun (Henry Holt, 323 pp., ** out of four stars) is their account of the eventual surrender of Japan in World War II. Now O'Reilly's killing spree, abetted by co-writer Martin Dugard, has moved beyond people to entire nations. O'Reilly's thesis, that the shooting caused Reagan's eventual Alzheimer's disease, was roundly criticized by members of the president's inner circle. (O’Reilly’s book posits that Patton was poisoned in the hospital after the crash by the Russian secret service.) Reagan, while shot in an assassination attempt in 1981, served two full, eventful terms as president and died in 2004. Patton died after a car accident in Germany. George Patton and President Ronald Reagan, the topics of his most recent "Killing" books. Arguments could be made for his next two books, Killing Kennedy and Killing Jesus, because, by definition, President John Kennedy and Jesus were murdered.īut not Gen.
Killing Lincoln, O'Reilly's book about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, was an engaging piece of history.
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