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Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
written by Thomas Dilorenzo
Studio : Three Rivers Press
by Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 2007-11-27
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Released : 2007-11-27
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Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780307338426
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 37 reviews)
List Price : $12.95
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Product Description |
What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere with slavery in the South? Would you suddenly start to question everything you thought you knew about Lincoln and his presidency?
You should.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, who ignited a fierce debate about Lincoln’s legacy with his book The Real Lincoln, now presents a litany of stunning new revelations that explode the most enduring (and pernicious) myths about our sixteenth president. Marshaling an astonishing amount of new evidence, Lincoln Unmasked offers an alarming portrait of a political manipulator and opportunist who bears little resemblance to the heroic, stoic, and principled figure of mainstream history.
Did you know that Lincoln . . .
• did NOT save the union? In fact, Lincoln did more than any other individual to destroy the voluntary union the Founding Fathers recognized.
• did NOT want to free the slaves? Lincoln, who did not believe in equality of the races, wanted the Constitution to make slavery “irrevocable.”
• was NOT a champion of the Constitution? Contrary to his high-minded rhetoric, Lincoln repeatedly trampled on the Constitution—and even issued an arrest warrant for the chief justice of the United States!
• was NOT a great statesman? Lincoln was actually a warmonger who manipulated his own people into a civil war.
• did NOT utter many of his most admired quotations? DiLorenzo exposes a legion of statements that have been falsely attributed to Lincoln for generations—usually to enhance his image.
In addition to detailing Lincoln’s offenses against the principles of freedom, equality, and states’ rights, Lincoln Unmasked exposes the vast network of academics, historians, politicians, and other “gatekeepers” who have sanitized his true beliefs and willfully distorted his legacy. DiLorenzo reveals how the deification of Lincoln reflects a not-so-hidden agenda to expand the size and scope of the American state far beyond what the Founding Fathers envisioned—an expansion that Lincoln himself began.
The hagiographers have shaped Lincoln’s image to the point that it has become more fiction than fact. With Lincoln Unmasked, DiLorenzo shows us an Abraham Lincoln without the rhetoric, lies, and political bias that have clouded a disastrous president’s enduring damage to the nation.
From the Hardcover edition. |
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Book - Lincoln Unmasked |
Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
Good readying if you like history and want to know when and where the downfall of our country began. |
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Provocative, fast reading, many footnotes |
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This is a historical polemic in that it attacks other historians and the official Lincon standards. There is no other way to present an alternative to accepted scholarship than to try to debunk it. I work in DC and pass the Lincoln Memorial frequently. It is a temple. It is the stone deification of a man, not unlike the Roman deification of Augustus. They did the same to Jefferson. It is a human tendency. No one will say it - but they are temples seeking public worship. Very odd, not just today, but when built. The US has no state religion. That is the first amendment - but we do. One is the Lincoln religion. Lincoln's actual feelings about slavery, racial equality and the nature of total war have been glossed over in favor of the temple. All historians know it. Some of the contents of this book are rather shocking. Extensive footnotes. Your kids will probably get in trouble if they take this to public schools where the temple is strong. I recommend the book as one of many about Lincoln, but mostly because it will cause you to rethink Lincoln, read more about Lincoln and come to a decision on your own - which may disagree with the author. You may end up accepting the temple theory, but Lincoln should be reconsidered rather than just worshipped. This is one of those think-for-yourself books that gives you some concepts to reconsider. Personally, I don't think it goes far enough as I have studied Lincoln for years and am amazed at the amount of material the general public does not know. Why the civil rightds movement associates with the Lincoln temple and not with Harper's Ferry is beyond me. Also read up on John Brown, Harper's Ferry and Lincoln's plans for life after the presidency. But I give this book five stars for its daring, brevity, footnotes and polemical style that makes for lively reading. As for the temple, I would rather see a copy of the magna carta, the constitution and a large, running mirror where people saw themselves and their personal responsibility. Lincoln's statute reminds me of the descriptions of Jupiter Optimus in his temple in anceint Rome. One day, people will claim miracles... |
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Wonderful Book |
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Overall, this book is exciting and fast paced. I received my Ph.D in American History at Georgetown and I thought his account of Abe was spot on. This book repeats at time but Thomas Dilorenzo makes up for it in posterity and style. This book should be required at every school! I enjoyed it so much I read the rest of his books the same week. 5 Stars |
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Lincoln Unmasked, what you're not supposed to know about critical thinking |
Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
If you are a teacher of history and include critical thinking as a part of your curriculumn, then this is the book for you and your students. Learning how to think critically through the use of history involves determining the legitmacy of historical evidence and how an author's bias can effect the interpretation of that evidence. "Lincoln Unmasked" by Thomas Dilorenzo is an excellent example of how evidence can be misused, because of the author's bias, to create a misinterpretation of history that only a propagandist with the staure of, say, Joesph Goebbels could be proud. And of course if Jefferson Davis were alive today he would be the first to give it " a two thumbs up" and consider it a validation of his own tome to the Civil War. Sorry, Mr. Dilorenzo I meant "The War Between the States" or better yet "The War of Northern Agression".
I dare you to find a revisionist history of the Civil War other than "Lincoln Unmasked" that does a better job of minimizing if not elimating slavery as a key issue. My hat's off to Mr. DiLorenzo, no book has ever done a better job of teaching my students how careful one must be and how important it is, in a democracy, to ensure that the evidence used and interpretated by our leaders is actually true.
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The Real Lincoln.....The Reviews and Critics Unmasked! |
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It's beginning to be a tiresome and totally predictable reaction of the Lincoln cultists that DiLorenzo exposes to attack the author personally rather than the documented material from the historical record that he uses to make his case. "Screed" is a word they use to attack Dr. DiLorenzo personally and by doing so have defined and unmasked their own emotionally based prejudices and their own innate bigotry. "Screed" is a good word to describe the "DiLorenzo Haters" own irrational outbursts and to keep reciting the mythical and holy Lincoln mantra, created after his death, to attempt to shout down anyone who would differ in the orthodox opinion with the modern day Josef Goebbels-like sanitizing of real history as Dr. DiLorenzo is offering as an alternative and well as a well documented debunking of the Lincoln Myth. The charge of excessive "copy/paste" type of documention actually gives his work more validity than just being a personal statement of his opinion. Dr. DiLorenzo knew very well of the coming withering attacks from the very "Cultists" he has exposed and documented accordingly. |
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