0761526463 Everything you know about Lincoln is wrong... trust me. Start by marking “The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War” as Want to Read: The right of secession is in fact a key to controlling the powers of a central government.Disturbing book.
It was done in a terribly painful way, because the South had firmly blocked the less painful ways.Writing in 2013 about DiLorenzo's book and the work of other "Lincoln haters", Rich Lowry said:The anti-Lincolnites hate that the North instituted a progressive income tax; they never bother to complain that the Confederacy did the same. The Civil War was a disaster, and this book helps explain why... but there are many, many areas where the coverage is too shallow, and too polemical. More precisely, with respect to the books under review, there is a temptation for writers oblivious to the requirements of historical scholarship to treat Lincoln's speeches and writings as a polemical grab bag from which to select materials, abstracted from their historical context, that can be used to present Lincoln in an unfavorable light. There was no way the South would have allowed any President or Congress to spend a single tax-payers' Dollar for compensating slave-owners. For instance, in regards to the Emancipation Proclamation, DiLornenzo states it was a "war measure [...which] in reality, the president had no power to dictate such a thing to a state government." DiLorenzo asks this same question and presents us with a different portrait of Lincoln. Not mentioned once. The historical context in this book is more complete than his other book. He pretends the war isn't about slavery by ignoring the Ordinances of Secession that explicitly identify slavery as the cause. Since the Constitution declares its aim as the creation of a "more perfect" union, and since in his view absolute indissolubility must be by definition an aspect of "perfection," then the Union created by the Constitution must be even more absolute than that created by the Articles.The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary WarAbraham Lincoln is considered to be the most revered president in American history by historians, but why? One can't read only hagiography about such an important man. There, that should hopefully lay aside the kneejerk reaction to what follows as being because I'm some kind of racist. For instance, in regards to the Emancipation Proclamation, DiLornenzo states it was a "war measure [...which] in reality, the president had no power to dictate such a thing to a state government." He is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and an associated scholar of the Abbeville Institute. It seems to me the book is part of a body of "scholarship" whose ultimate goal is for the South to secede again, and possibly to return to its antebellum social structure. He points out that a small percentage of the money and resources spent on the Civil War would have sufficed to compensate all slave owners and provide land to all released slaves – and the numbers certainly back him up. Because the ideas were so ingrained in the American psyche, something of a revolt against centralized government authority occurred in the postwar years, personified by the presidency of Grover Cleveland, who vetoed the income tax and dozens of tariff bills. With malice towards all and charity towards none of Abraham Lincoln's principles and actions, The Real Lincoln is the latest attempt to finish the job so ignobly begun by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865. He rants about Reconstruction which, even if his depiction were accurate, happened AFTER Lincoln's death.Everything you know about Lincoln is wrong... trust me. (Surely not through Confederate peace offers, predicated on preserving slavery in the South forever.) "DiLorenzo responded saying that Masugi was selective in his presentation about Lincoln and "relies entirely on a few of Lincoln's prettier speeches, ignoring his less attractive ones as well as his actual behavior." His research on the war prompted him to write this. The 13th Amendment, where slavery was permanently ended through legal, constitutional methods? He worried about his ability to portray Lincoln, but decided that limiting his characterization to a single night made the writing process "not easy, but Saunders has said that, while he named the setting after Tibetan tradition, he incorporated elements of the Christian and Egyptian afterlives, so as not to be "too literal."
DiLorenzo, though, uses this as a straw man to bat down as if it were actually representative of real historical scholarship, thus creating a classic false dichotomy in which Lincoln is either Not so much a history or biography as an apologetic for the mythos of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas DiLorenzo (Roseville, Calf. The Real Lincoln : A New Look At Abraham Lincoln 1756 Words | 8 Pages. The heart of the states rights argument was for the south to maintain slavery. He claims, for instance, the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave: he ignores that the Union controlled large swaths of the Confederacy by the time it was issued.
The states had a right to secede from the union. The states had a right to secede from the union. From here you can conduct a more academic investigation but it helps you shake off the brainwashing of the history that was written by the winners.Before I present my I review, I think it is important to tell you where I stand on Lincoln:Before I present my I review, I think it is important to tell you where I stand on Lincoln:DiLorenzo dares to touch one of America’s sacred cows. Thanks to Lincoln's war, states’ rights would no longer perform its most important function: protecting the citizens of the states from federal judicial tyranny.” There are interesting questions that the book raises, but fails to answer in a satisfying (non polemical) way. December 2nd 2003 So many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln’s presidency.