ISBN: 1684510686 9781684510689

Category: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)

Page count: 240

<b>The Problem with Lincoln</b><br><br>Abraham Lincoln was widely and deeply unpopular during his presidency. And for good reason.<br><br>He overturned our original constitutional order, violated the rights of Americans both North and South, massively inflated the federal government, and plunged the nation into a wholly unnecessary war. Why? <i>Not </i>to free the slaves, as his hagiographers would have you believe, but out of personal ambition, greed for power, and, incidentally, to enrich the railroad interests that supported his political career.<br><br>Court historians have turned King Lincoln into a secular saint, but what did Abraham Lincoln’s contemporaries know that has been forgotten or covered up? Bestselling author Thomas J. DiLorenzo debunks the pious myths to reveal the <i>real</i> Lincoln.<br><br>In <i>The Problem with Lincoln</i>, you’ll learn:<br><ul><li>Why Lincoln was willing to accept a constitutional amendment guaranteeing slavery <i>forever</i></li><li>Why no American in 1861, Northerner <i>or </i>Southerner, believed that Lincoln had invaded the South to emancipate the slaves</li><li>Why secession doesn’t fit the Constitution’s definition of treason—but Lincoln’s war on the South does</li><li>Lincoln’s greatest failure: not ending slavery peacefully, as the rest of the world managed to do</li></ul><br>If you want the unvarnished truth about our sixteenth president, read <i>The Problem with Lincoln</i>.