Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Interesting Look at History

Like many people, I've always known the basic facts of the Lincoln assassination (I've even been to Ford's Theater), but this book provided many interesting details that I'd never heard before. I was especially interested in the insights provided about Booth's co-conspirators, and their efforts to kill Vice-President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward (the forgotten victim of that night). Like many, I believed the version of events that painted Dr. Mudd as an innocent, he certainly wasn't.Although this book is chock full of interesting facts, I couldn't give it 5 stars because, frankly, it wasn't very well written (and/or edited). There is much repitition of the "facts", sometimes within a few paragraphs of one another, and a lot of unnecessary verbage. I also found the author's characterization of the main player's thought processes somewhat sappy and overly melodramatic. Regardless, a very interesting read.