Thomas J. Dilorenzo book, The Real Lincoln

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Dilorenzo, Thomas J.. The Real Lincoln: a new look at Abraham Lincoln, his agenda, and an unnecessary war. Roseville, Calif: Prima, 2002

In Thomas J. Dilorenzo book, The Real Lincoln: A new look at Abraham Lincoln, his agenda, and unnecessary war, is all about the hidden stories behind the 16th president of the United States, where he seem to be a good role model in the eyes of many American. The Real Lincoln, “Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.” (x). Dilorenzo’s book examines between the role of the federal government with the states, which the government system we have today. The Real Lincoln, also revealing many pros and cons of President Lincoln during his golden era. Furthermore, Dilorenzo not only focuses on Lincoln’s role as a president, but the private and public life with a lot comparison as well.
Chapter 1 is an introduction of the whole book. It’s giving the readers a better understand of the book. There are a short summary of each chapter in the book and short explaining. Chapter 1 is basically getting us closer with the thesis of what the author trying to point out in the book. Chapter 1 have a lot of good points, “this agenda achieved little political success during the first seventy years of the nation’s existence, but was fully implemented during the first two years of the Lincoln administration. It was Lincoln’s real agenda” (3). In this chapter Thomas Dilorenzo arranged...

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The weakness is the author over using the statement where he quotes from people. Beside that this book is very interesting to read. I would recommend this book to my friend or the younger generation because I pretty sure you don’t know until you read it. I learned a lot of thing about Abraham Lincoln after reading this book, and I was surprise with some of the facts about him too. I believe all of Thomas Dilorenzo arguments because he provides so much proof. After all, I think Lincoln does not deserve to be call as a hero. He first started out saying he did not care about abolition. He could not have been the father of freedom.

Works Cited

Clyde Wilson, “The Papers of John C. Calhown”, New Brunswick, New Jersy
Dilorenzo, Thomas J.. The Real Lincoln: a new look at Abraham Lincoln, his agenda, and an unnecessary war. Roseville, Calif: Prima, 2002

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