Confronting Evil

Assessing the Worst of the Worst

By: Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

By the #1 bestselling history author in the world, Bill O'Reilly comes a dramatic confrontation with good, evil, and the worst people who ever lived.

The concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today. The biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. Evil is a choice to make another suffer. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by.

Confronting Evil by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer recounts the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. The Roman Emperor Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the 19th century slave traders and the 20th century robber barons. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Collectively, these warlords, tyrants, businessmen, and criminals are directly responsible for the death and misery of hundreds of millions of people.

By telling what they did and why they did it, Confronting Evil explains the struggle between good and evil--a choice every person in the Judeo-Christian tradition is compelled to make. But many defer. We avoid the life decision. We look away. It's easier.

Prepare yourself to listen to the consequences of that inaction. As John Stuart Mill said in his inaugural address to the University of St. Andrews in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

"[What stands out is] Petkoff's bravura performance, the fine sound quality, and the exceptional direction and editing. Indeed, this is an impressive audiobook" —AudioFile on Hitler's Last Days

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press

©2025 Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer (P)2025 Macmillan Audio

Great overview of villians.

I like the details and history. it adds details to historical events that i did not know.

Great in-depth book

Great book well researched great audio. I would recommend to any one that likes history

Worthwhile But Not Great

The book seems more a history reader than about "confronting evil." Although in the last chapter he moralizes about it. As a history buff of many years and many books, I question some of its facts. Alternative explanations for events are not mentioned although they exist. Perhaps a major strength of O'Reilly's book are the timelines, laid-out to show the arc of an evil-doer's deeds during his lifetime. This was also true of his book Killing the Killers: after reading it I understood the totality of terrorists' actions as they transpired over time, and the number of them. Confronting Evil is worth buying but beware the hype.

Hidden information

I learned so much more than from high school history class . My history classes seemed to skip a lot of information

mandatory learning in schools

this was relatively easy to understand and gives an exacting picture of what we are about to go through now if ALL people young and old don't listen to this and get their heads out of their *** phones. "This" book should be mandatory reading with open discussion in every classroom from the 5th grade and up. Then it should be on the SATs. Then it should be taught in a CIVICS class that should be mandatory in college no matter what one majors in. We are in trouble and this book explains why. READ it or LISTEN to it.