The Real Lincoln:
A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War
Crown Publishing
Group, 02/12/2003 - 384 páginas
A New Look at
Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend.
Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend.
Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the
sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to
revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited
in scope and highly decentralized—as the Founding Fathers intended—to a highly
centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with
its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its
reliance on unfettered free trade. To accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted
the Constitution, trampled states' rights, and launched a devastating Civil
War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to this provacative book, 600,000
American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause of ending slavery but for
the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of the states to the
supremacy of the federal government, which has been tightening its vise grip on
our republic to this very day.
You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in school—a side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war.
You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in school—a side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war.
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