Fact-checkers get ready, there’s a new Bill O’Reilly book arriving in stores this week. If Killing Reagan is anything like his previous forays into the historical genre, and if it’s anything like the dubious memoirs the Fox News anchor has penned that helped improve his life story, the new tome will likely be rife with dubious assertions that will have scholars scratching their heads.
Killing Reagan follows the chart-topping success of O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, and Killing Patton, all co-written with Martin Dugard. Several of the books have been charred by historians for being off-base and weakly researched.