The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War-Fast Shipping

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A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

Most Americansconsider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as theGreat Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a nationalholiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. Butwhat if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of anAmerican hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politicianwho waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire thatrivaled Great Britain’s?

In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncoversa side of Lincoln not told in many history books–and overshadowed by the immenseLincoln legend. Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzoportrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizingthe American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highlydecentralized—as the Founding Fathers intended—to a highly centralized, activiststate. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states,its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted the Constitution, trampled states’ rights,and launched a devastating Civil War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to thisprovacative book, 600,000 American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause ofending slavery but for the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of thestates to the supremacy of the federal government, which has been tightening itsvise grip on our republic to this very day.

In The Real Lincoln, you will discover a side of Lincoln thatyou were probably never taught in school—a side that calls into question the verymyths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps,unnecessary war.