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The Problem with Lincoln: The False Virtue of Abraham Lincoln Kindle Edition

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The Problem with Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was widely and deeply unpopular during his presidency. And for good reason.

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? Not 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.

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 real Lincoln.

In The Problem with Lincoln, you’ll learn:

Why Lincoln was willing to accept a constitutional amendment guaranteeing slavery forever
Why no American in 1861, Northerner or Southerner, believed that Lincoln had invaded the South to emancipate the slaves
Why secession doesn’t fit the Constitution’s definition of treason—but Lincoln’s war on the South does
Lincoln’s greatest failure: not ending slavery peacefully, as the rest of the world managed to do

If you want the unvarnished truth about our sixteenth president, read The Problem with Lincoln.

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"Tom has spent much of his career smashing the cult-like veneration of the American presidency that has been instilled in the American public, and this important and necessary work on the most venerated of all is a must for the independent thinker."

-- "Thomas Woods, New York Times bestselling author and senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute"

"The sacred Father Abraham was the central figure in the destruction of the Founding Fathers' constitutional republic and its conversion, by bloody means, into the unlimited government of crony capitalism and worldwide empire that we suffer under today. No scholar has been as perceptive and courageous as Professor Thomas DiLorenzo in bringing enlightenment about the real Lincoln to the public..."

-- "Clyde N. Wilson, distinguished professor of history emeritus, University of South Carolina"

"The Lincoln myth has been as baneful for republican self-government in America as it is fashionable. Any doubt about this will be challenged by reading this continually stimulating and revelatory study of the man most academic historians rank as America's greatest president."

-- "Donald W. Livingston, retired professor of philosophy, Emory University, and president of the Abbeville Institute"

"Millions of Americans genuflect to St. Abraham at his Parthenon in Washington, DC, each year. If they read this book, they would bring sledgehammers."

-- "Brion McClanahan, author of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America"

About the Author

Dr. Thomas J. DiLorenzo is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a retired economics professor, having taught university economics for forty-one years. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books, including The Real Lincoln, How Capitalism Saved America, Hamilton’s Curse, and The Problem with Socialism.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B085CMMNLB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery History (July 7, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3299 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 253 pages

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- #201 in Civil War History of the U.S.
- #330 in American Civil War Biographies (Books)

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Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the author of The Real Lincoln and How Capitalism Saved America. A professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Barron's, and many other publications. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Tom R.

Real history not censored BS from school

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2021

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I am impressed with how well this book is researched and written. This is a short book that is easy to read. This book answered a lot of questions I had about the civil war and the political dynamics of that time. It was enlightening and frustrating how the victors rewrote history by only teaching students what they wanted them to know. This is becoming more evident with the current cancel culture trying to remove parts of history by censoring it, denying our history the good and the bad is a mistake. We are the sum of all our history not just the delicate pieces. This book certainly add to factual history and should be taught as such in our schools. I have pointed many people to this book and several have purchased it because they had never heard about the facts in it. I hope more factual historical books continue to be written that challenge what our schools are indoctrinating people with today.

I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone to read to get history as it really happened.

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R. Eikenburg

Tremendously informative

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020

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Lincoln is deified in the teachings of US history, but few realize what his personality and views were actually like. Meticulously researched and written in as neutral a tone as possible, this book points out the real Lincoln - the one you never hear about because of the aura of saintliness that has been wrapped around him. Several facts in this book were so appalling and astounding I had to check the author's sources, but as I suspected, they're all 100% legit. You will never think of this man the same way you were taught in school after reading this book, and you will see him as he really was. That's all I'm going to say.

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Judge Joseph S. Johnston (Ret.)

A Great Book About America's Most Popular President Which Tells The Real Truth

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2020

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Tom DiLorenzo does it again.

I have read Dr. DiLorenzo two prior books about Lincoln; "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War" and "Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe" and through that the myth of Lincoln being the best American president had been fully debunked. However, in "The Problem with Lincoln" Dr. DiLorenzo chronicles even more abuses of power and more myths about Lincoln.

For those who want to learn the truth about the Lincoln administration, it will probably come as a shocker that actions taken by Lincoln are used by Presidents to justify every abuse of civil liberties committed over the past 75 years--from FDR's disgraceful secret trial of the German saboteurs in WWII to George W. Bush's mass surveillance and warrantless searches of American citizens. All these despotic actions can be traced back to Abe Lincoln.

Dr. DiLorenzo should be commended for standing up and telling the truth about a man who was willing to have slavery protected forever by the Constitution (through the Corwin Amendment) to mass arrest of opposition newspaper publishers to his enthusiasm for deporting all newly free slaves to Africa or Central America.
Any reader of this book will see how a massive public relations and propaganda campaign can create a myth which is believed after 150 years.

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Phenomenal Work

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2020

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Well researched and well written. A lot of history books read like dull textbooks, this one flows from start to finish.

Most importantly this book obliterates conventional wisdom surrounding the Civil War and much of the 19th Century. Some, who clearly haven't read it, would freak out that this is part of "cancel culture". However, it is anything but. If nothing else is reveals how the myths surrounding the 1860s are being manipulated to fuel cancel culture and mis-characterize huge segments of both US history and the population. If you're curious about the causes of the Civil War, the players of the time, and why there are massive undercurrents of unrest that still persist today I cannot recommend this book any more stridently.

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Joe Jordan

The hard cold truth about Abe Lincoln

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020

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Having read Dr. DiLorenzo's previous books on Lincoln, it didn't seem so important to read this one. After the first couple of pages I quickly changed my mind. This book is the most concise and well researched book on Lincoln that I have ever read. While the title is an understatement, this brilliant work could be and should be the final coffin nail in the Lincoln myth.

If every teacher and professor in the country would read this book and begin teaching the truth about that hideous war criminal and tyrant it might transform American education. Of course this would require academia to admit that they have been lying to everyone for generations. Television media personalities would have to stop standing in front of pictures and statues of Lincoln to Impress us with their fake historical knowledge.

Sooner or later it would get out that the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws were just as prominent in the North as they were in the South. Overturning the Lincoln lie is going to be huge challenge. This is just the book to do it.

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Betty Jane Davies

"Five War Crimials" illustrating Lincoln had blood on his hands..

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2020

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I have concentrated on war and political drawings in graphite over decades and owe a small number of authors including Thomas J. DiLorenzo a great debt of gratitude for having the courage to write politically incorrect honest historical accounts regarding Lincoln and his war he initiated by himself.
The Problem With Lincoln makes clear Lincoln's contempt for the rule of law, his socialist bent, his racist views towards the negro as well as Lincoln's direct responsibility for wide spread war crimes in a TOTAL WAR war that had not been waged to end slavery.
"The Problem With Lincoln" provides even greater detail ithat Lincoln's War was based on northern economic hysteria - tariffs a northern dominated Congress had passed onto the South which became the North's golden goose..

"The Problem With Lincoln" made clear Lincoln was in daily contact with his generals and was aware of the crimes committed against southerns . Sherman had even placed an emphasis on children being exterminated. Among those generals: Grant, Sheridan, Sherman and Butler and Lincoln.
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