In Thomas J. DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, he reveals truths about the United States’ sixteenth president that many people did not know about. There are many myths and sides the American people do not know about Abraham Lincoln and Thomas J. DiLorenzo, exposes the truth in this book. Thomas J. DiLorenzo was extremely critical about President Lincoln’s presidency and called him out on crimes that Lincoln committed and he argued that Lincoln’s view about race released forms of bigotry. DiLorenzo opposes that Abraham Lincoln was far from the great leader that history has made him out to be. DiLorenzo attended college at Westminster College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
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In chapter 4, this explains how Lincoln was devoted to Henry Clay and his economic agenda and supported him (DiLorenzo 2002, 2). DiLorenzo says that “the debate of the economic agenda was arguably the most important political debate during the first seventy years of the nation’s existence and that violence of the war ended the debate in 1861”. In chapter five, was the debate on the right of secession. It is stated in chapter five that Abraham Lincoln “invented a theory that the federal government, which were therefore not sovereign- which wage the bloodiest wat in world history just to prove himself right”. Lincoln was very careless and just wanted a reason to destroy the south. In chapter six, is about how Lincoln was labeled as a “Dictator”. Lincoln Scholars labeled him as this because he “launched a military invasion without the consent of congress, suspending the habeas corpus, imprisoning thousands of northern citizens without trials for merely opposing his policies, censoring all telegraph communication, and imprisoning dozens of opposition newspaper publishers.”
In chapter 4, this explains how Lincoln was devoted to Henry Clay and his economic agenda and supported him (DiLorenzo 2002, 2). DiLorenzo says that “the debate of the economic agenda was arguably the most important political debate during the first seventy years of the nation’s existence and that violence of the war ended the debate in 1861”. In chapter five, was the debate on the right of secession. It is stated in chapter five that Abraham Lincoln “invented a theory that the federal government, which were therefore not sovereign- which wage the bloodiest wat in world history just to prove himself right”. Lincoln was very careless and just wanted a reason to destroy the south. In chapter six, is about how Lincoln was labeled as a “Dictator”. Lincoln Scholars labeled him as this because he “launched a military invasion without the consent of congress, suspending the habeas corpus, imprisoning thousands of northern citizens without trials for merely opposing his policies, censoring all telegraph communication, and imprisoning dozens of opposition newspaper publishers.”