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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

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Author

Lincoln, Abraham; DiLorenzo, Thomas J.; Lincoln, Abraham

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group, Three Rivers Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307559388

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4.13 / 5 (1,265 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13