Bill O'Reilly (1) (1949–)
Author of Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
For other authors named Bill O'Reilly, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Bill O'Reilly was born in Manhattan, New York on September 10, 1949. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Marist College, a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University, and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He show more started his broadcasting career in Scranton, Pennsylvania before moving on to report and anchor in other places including Dallas, Boston and New York. He worked with CBS and ABC News and was the host of the first version of Inside Edition. He began to work for FOX News in 1996 and is currently the host of The O'Reilly Factor. He has won numerous journalism awards including 3 Emmys. He also writes a weekly column that appears in more than 300 newspapers. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books including Pinheads and Patriots, Kids Are Americans Too, Killing Lincoln, Lincoln's Last Days, Keep It Pithy, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, The Last Days of Jesus, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West, Killing Patton, Hitler's Last Days, Killing Reagan, Old School, and Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War. O'Reilly's books, The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan; Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan; and Old School: Life in the Sane Lane made the New York Times Bestseller list. 030 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Bill O'Reilly
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever (2011) 3,667 copies, 141 reviews
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (2014) 1,862 copies, 41 reviews
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) (2015) 1,292 copies, 28 reviews
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence (2017) — Author — 818 copies, 20 reviews
The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life (2000) 689 copies, 8 reviews
The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America (2001) 659 copies, 5 reviews
Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever (2012) 496 copies, 4 reviews
Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator (2015) 381 copies, 2 reviews
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden (2024) 265 copies, 8 reviews
The Day the World Went Nuclear: Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific (2017) 135 copies, 5 reviews
The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan (2016) 112 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins [2000 film] (2000) — Actor — 78 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- O'Reilly, William James, Jr. (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1949-11-10
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Marist College (BA ∙ History ∙ 1971)
Boston University (MA ∙ Journalism)
Harvard University (MPA ∙ 1996) - Occupations
- reporter
television host
sexual harasser - Organizations
- The Boston Phoenix
ABC
CBS
Fox News
Creators Syndicate - Awards and honors
- Dallas Press Club Award
- Relationships
- Kalb, Marvin (teacher)
- Short biography
- William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American journalist, author, and former television host. During the late 1970s and 1980s, he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted The O'Reilly Factor until 2017. The O'Reilly Factor was the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as "the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News." He is the author of numerous books and hosted The Radio Factor (2002–2009). Since 2017, he has hosted the No Spin News podcast which he founded.
Bill O'Reilly is a trailblazing TV journalist who has experienced unprecedented success on cable news and in writing fifteen national number-one bestselling nonfiction books. There are currently more than 17 million books in the Killing series in print. He currently hosts the 'No Spin News' on BillOReilly.com. He lives on Long Island. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Manhasset, New York, USA
Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA
Levittown, New York, USA
Miami, Florida, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
I am not big on historical tomes, but one of my private students had to read this one for a history class at her college prep school, and I read it as well. I am so thankful I did. Thinking I knew all there was to know about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, I was proved wrong. O'Reilly doesn't just tell the tale of Lincoln's death, he tells the backstory of each person and every moment leading up to the president's murder, along with internal dialogue that pushes the story forward like a show more novel. It also contains what took place after the murder, much of it I only knew from past high school and college text books, which obviously do not go into the crux. This book changed the way I view one of the most important political movements of US history. I came away feeling like I'd just watched a thriller, and have more empathy for those who suffered his loss. If you think you do not enjoy historical non-fiction, this may be the book to change your mind. show less
I can't deal with the big stuff, so let's do the small stuff. This is a pretty competent thriller, with a Machiavellian murderer, a heroic detective, and a good woman caught between the two of them. There's sex and death and high stakes confrontations. I'm pretty sure I read like five novels by Ken Follett with pretty much the exact same plot. Buy it at the airport, leave it at the airport, feel no shame.
Except for the big stuff, which is that this was written by TV "journalist" and serial show more sexual harasser Bill O'Reilly. And this is where it gets super weird. See, the protagonist Shannon Michaels is basically Bill O'Reilly's id, an Irish-American TV journalist who gets a story stolen from him by a bigger name at the network in Buenos Aires in 1982 (something that actually happened to O'Reilly), and who then goes on a rampage of revenge against the people who wrecked his career, using his IRA training (yes, really) to kill them in ironic ways without leaving any evidence. Stopping Shannon is Tommy O'Mally, an Irish-American cop with a shitty ex-wife, who's basically another layer of O'Reilly's id. And between them this super idealized East Coast prima donna, slumming it as the crime reporter at the New York Globe.
This novel is pretty good when it sticks to what O'Reilly knows, the backstabbing politics of TV news. Whenever a woman shows up... I have seen aliens depicted with more psychological realism and understanding than the female characters in this book. Good ones exist to be seduced by the powerful men, bad ones are ugly, crazy, probably secret lesbians, and deserve to die. A decent book, that is unintentionally hilarious in retrospect. show less
Except for the big stuff, which is that this was written by TV "journalist" and serial show more sexual harasser Bill O'Reilly. And this is where it gets super weird. See, the protagonist Shannon Michaels is basically Bill O'Reilly's id, an Irish-American TV journalist who gets a story stolen from him by a bigger name at the network in Buenos Aires in 1982 (something that actually happened to O'Reilly), and who then goes on a rampage of revenge against the people who wrecked his career, using his IRA training (yes, really) to kill them in ironic ways without leaving any evidence. Stopping Shannon is Tommy O'Mally, an Irish-American cop with a shitty ex-wife, who's basically another layer of O'Reilly's id. And between them this super idealized East Coast prima donna, slumming it as the crime reporter at the New York Globe.
This novel is pretty good when it sticks to what O'Reilly knows, the backstabbing politics of TV news. Whenever a woman shows up... I have seen aliens depicted with more psychological realism and understanding than the female characters in this book. Good ones exist to be seduced by the powerful men, bad ones are ugly, crazy, probably secret lesbians, and deserve to die. A decent book, that is unintentionally hilarious in retrospect. show less
The story reads like a movie. The way O'Reilly switches back and forth from the glorious Kennedy to the pathetic Oswald with objectivity makes Killing Kennedy seem like as accurate an account as we who were not born at the time can hope to have - devoid of the hero-worship spin put on Kennedy by other so-called reporters who come off as little more than fans rather than as historians. In this book, Kennedy was at once flawed and impressive - in other words, he was human. And the troubled show more Oswald is not unlike these troubled adults who shoot children in Connecticut schools nowadays. If only we learn something from him and others since him... I was already familiar with the facts surrounding Kennedy's horrendous murder, but I must say that I FELT it for the first time reading this book. I have no idea how Mrs. Kennedy ever slept another night in her life after experiencing what she experienced that day in Dallas with the love of her life. One point of criticism - the first person, present tense was sometimes awkward since this was not an autobiography, but overall very good read. show less
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists (Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series) by Bill O'Reilly
This detailed account of atrocities committed by middle eastern terrorists should have been titled Slaughtering the Innocents. Page after page is devoted to descriptions of kidnappings, rapes, beheadings, and suicide bombers’ slaughter of thousands of innocents going about their daily lives. The focus rarely turns to authorities’ successes in combatting terrorism.
O’Reilly and Dugard follow their usual practice of dramatizing the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of individuals they show more have never met or interviewed. They attempt to gloss over these forays into imagination by name-dropping authoritative figures and listing documents they claim support their narrative. The result is a fictitious drama depicting actual events.
O’Reilly is well-known for his right-wing sympathies, but Killing the Killers presents a more blatantly biased right-wing MAGA perspective than earlier offerings in this series. Readers who like their fiction with a MAGA bias and superficial gloss of authenticity will, to cite the policy of Fox News, hear what they want to hear. show less
O’Reilly and Dugard follow their usual practice of dramatizing the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of individuals they show more have never met or interviewed. They attempt to gloss over these forays into imagination by name-dropping authoritative figures and listing documents they claim support their narrative. The result is a fictitious drama depicting actual events.
O’Reilly is well-known for his right-wing sympathies, but Killing the Killers presents a more blatantly biased right-wing MAGA perspective than earlier offerings in this series. Readers who like their fiction with a MAGA bias and superficial gloss of authenticity will, to cite the policy of Fox News, hear what they want to hear. show less
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- Members
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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- Reviews
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