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Title: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by THOMAS DILORENZO ISBN: 0-7615-3641-8 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (220 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book ever on Lincoln
Comment: Thomas DiLorenzo has hit the nail on the head with this book. Lincoln and the Republican Party are the reason we have big government to this very day. In Lincoln's own words "I have taken the Constitution and stuck it in a hole," and politicians have been doing that ever since. Far too many people think Lincoln was America's greatest president. This just shows the stupidity of America, and how well the government school system is working! Lincoln destroyed these United States, and it's form of government as it was created by the founding fathers. The so-called "civil war" was no more about slavery than World War 2 was about the Jewish People, or the holocaust! As almost every war it was about money & power, and the bad guys won! In fact they have won so much so that a majority of the reviews written about this book are by stupid people who care nothing for the facts, or truth!
Mr. DiLorenzo's book should be mandatory reading for every school child across the planet! The truth is far to valuable a tool to be distorted by racist, liberal, idiots! And that is exactly what Lincoln was!
Rating: 4
Summary: A hackle-raiser for sure!
Comment: If there are any sacred cows in America, the one at the head of the herd has got to be Abraham Lincoln. Our culture gleefully villifies almost everyone. Psycho-biographies, in which the darkest interior rooms of the subject are exposed to light, are the rage these days. But somehow Lincoln for the most part has managed to escape all this. He's still the great American hero, venerated by layperson and scholar alike, sometimes to the point of embarrassing hagiography. (I once knew a history professor, for example, who insisted that students refer to Lincoln, both in class discussions and in term papers, as "MR. Lincoln." His class could just as well have been offered by the theology department.)
Thomas DiLorenzo refuses to genuflect before Lincoln's altar. In *The Real Lincoln*, a book that's guaranteed to infuriate a wide audience, ranging from Civil War buffs to Lincoln scholars to African-Americans to political liberals to history traditionalists, DiLorenzo claims that Lincoln's real historical legacy is the strong centralized state that characterizes the American political system today. From first to last, claims DiLorenzo, Lincoln's political vision was the creation of a Whiggish empire of protectionist tariffs, government subsidized railroads, and nationalization of the money supply. In the first year and a half of his administration, he pushed through much of this agenda. The average tariff rate tripled, railroads began raking in government money (a "war necessity"), and the National Currency Acts monopolized the money supply.
So far none of this is terribly alarming. Even admirers of Lincoln will admit much of what DiLorenzo says about Lincoln's economic dream and Whig leanings. But where DiLorenzo begins to stir up a storm is when he claims (1) that Lincoln basically allowed an unnecessary and horribly bloody war to occur in order to further his political vision of a strong state; (2) Lincoln was a "constitutional dictator"; and (3) Lincoln was never terribly concerned with slavery as a moral injustice.
In reference to the first point, DiLorenzo points out that the right to secession was simply taken for granted by most Americans prior to Lincoln's administration because they saw the country as a voluntary association of states. Lincoln didn't "save" the Union so much as he destroyed it as a voluntary association. In reference to the second point, DiLorenzo provides example after example of Lincoln's disregard--supposedly in the interests of the state--for the Constitution: launching a military invasion without Congressional consent; suspension of habeas corpus; censorship of newspapers; meddling with elections; confiscating private property; and so on. Finally, in reference to the last point--which is probably the book's most inflammatory one--DiLorenzo argues that Lincoln rarely mentioned the issue of slavery in political speeches until it became politically expedient to begin doing so. His opposition to slavery was always based on what he feared was its economic dangers, not on moral principle. As his contemporaries accurately noted, Lincoln the "Great Emancipator" was never an abolitionist. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, he was willing to tolerate slaveholding in nonsecessionist states. His ultimate solution--one that infuriated abolitionists such as Horace Greeley--was to colonize American blacks "back" to Africa or the Caribbean.
Much of DiLorenzo's claims about Lincoln's activities will be familiar. What's new about the book is the overall unfavorable portrait of Lincoln that emerges as DiLorenzo discusses them. It may be the case that DiLorenzo has swung too far in the opposite direction from conventional Lincoln hagiography. But it may also be the case that his book will encourage more moderate and accurate portrayals of Lincoln in the future. One can admire Lincoln without worshipping him.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Essential Resource for Educators
Comment: As a professional educator and a life-long student of Abraham Lincoln, I strongly recommend this work for my fellow teachers. It is a well-documented resource for anyone who works with American history. It should not be used as a single source, but it is necessary to provide historical balance alongside long-evolved Lincoln legend. Ignore the superfluous emotional rhetoric of others, and judge for yourself. You will be pleasantly surprised and will be doing your students a favor.
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Title: When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams ISBN: 0847697223 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy ISBN: 1565540247 Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel ISBN: 0812693124 Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Myths of American Slavery by Walter Donald Kennedy, Bob Harrison ISBN: 1589800478 Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis, James M. McPherson ISBN: 0306804182 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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