Fox’s Bill O’Reilly is now the most popular historian in America today

What an arrogant idiot.

'Breakneck speed'! 1,000 words a day! That is the measure of O'Reilly; he actually thinks he is an intellectual. The USA is welcome to this charlatan and Fox News!

O'Reilly a historian, now that is a stretch I hope he found somebody responsible like Sarah Palin to help him with his research, after all she has access to a Kenyan witch doctor who helped her though the mine field of truth during her election run [Sorry , Kenya, no offense intended]

Popularity is not a measure of quality. He can't even figure out his own history. He was born in the US but thinks he is actually Irish. On one visit to Ireland, where he imagines he was born, in one short interview on radio he managed to mangle together the history of the peace movement in Ulster, the IRA and the shooting in Dublin of a journalist by drug dealers.

Even a sycophantic puff piece can hardly call someone a "historian" who admits that OTHERS do his research. This despised right wing clown may be an effective word smith and now a best selling author of semi-respectable books, but it might be interesting to speculate how many MORE books he might have sold had he not forever turned a large part of the literate public off (they will find true historical greatness in Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals") by his Tea Party twaddle masquerading as "commentary."

It is difficult to view O'Reilly as an author of anything other than embellished fiction co-authored by 8 others.

TomDem55: Lincoln withheld supplies from Confed POWs. At Andersonville the South had no supplies. Their guards ate the same as the prisoners and many of them died as well. More Confed POWs died in Northen POW camps than did Nothern POWs in the South. Grant would not allow supplies to be shipped into Andersonville. He wanted the Northern POWs to be a burden on the South. Sherman could have freed them when he took Atlanta but elected to go east instead. Lincoln condoned this.

I have grave reservations about this claim !!!! I would suspect a lot of plagiarism here,Bill o' is an authoritarian with blinkers on and hence only one view on everything i,e,HIS VIEW ! He probably pays The Times,for which he has no use,to put name on their list ?

The dark side of Lincoln? Really those POWs had roofs over their heads, and were not living in holes in the ground in Andersonville. He preserved the nation you lost causers STILL wish to secede from bah

O'Reilly completely ignores the dark side of Lincoln - he bombed the civilian populations of several Southern cities (ala Hamas), he let Confed POWs die of starvation 90 miles from DC, he locked up politicians he disagreed with, he closed newspapers, etc.

Bill O'Reilly certainly benefits from freedom of expression and the free enterprise system, but he should be more supportive of our military veterans and of those now serving in our defense forces.