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. 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.
In The Real Lincoln, 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.
