The Real Lincoln Dilorenzo Summary

In Thomas Dilorenzo’s book, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War, is about Abraham Lincoln’s life as president and the hard troubles he had and the war that was found unnecessary. The Real Lincoln “the War between the States was not fought to end slavery. Even if it were, a natural question arises: Why was a costly war fought to end it?” (ix). Dilorenzo’s book gives his opinion on what he thought about how the war went. He wonders why was there war because everyone thinks the war was over slavery but the war was not over slavery. The book focuses a lot on the reason for the war and why Dilorenzo thinks there should not have been a war. “African slavery existed in many parts of the Western world, but it did not take warfare to end it. Dozens of countries, including the territorial possessions of the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish, ended slavery peacefully during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” (x).
Before the War Between the States slavery was a big occurrence in the south and some parts of the north. Mostly all the cotton in the world and in the Americas were from the cotton plantations in the south. The north was slowly losing plantations and it eventually just became the south that had slaves and plantations. …show more content…
The book tells you about what you will learn in the book and some of Dilorenzo’s point of views and opinions on Lincoln. He tells us a summary of the first few chapters and how he feels about those chapters in the order he put the chapters with in. He gives us brief main ideas about the main purpose of the chapters and the main question or thoughts Dilorenzo wants us to ask ourselves while reading through the book. Dilorenzo throughout the book tells his opinions on Lincoln’s hidden secrets based off the main idea of each chapter. The chapters jump around to different aspects of Lincoln’s career as