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Review of Lincoln Unmasked
By jbcobb | October 8, 2009
I just finished reading “Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe” by Thomas DiLorenzo. I simply CANNOT recommend this book enough. Dr. DiLorenzo, an economics professor at Loyolla College in Maryland, dares to challenge the popular pabulum that has spewed forth from so-called historians of the last century. As he states many times in his book, the facts he presents are not new, and for the most part, are not unknown to the “Lincoln cult”. But, nobody seems to present us proles with the true facts of the mid-19th century. Why?
A more important point Dr. DiLorenzo touches on, is the reason behind the deification of Abraham. When historians, and the government manipulators, are sanctifying Lincoln, they are raising the status of the government, and all of its actions, to the same level. They are saying that there are things that MUST be done FOR US, in order to save us from ourselves. Lincoln was therefore justified in throwing away the US Constitution, and indeed the very republic created by the Founding Fathers, in order to save us from destroying the country. Seems like an odd proposition. But, in fact what Dr. DiLorenzo points out is that Mr. Lincoln was indeed a shrewd politician and was only seeking to reform the “union” into a more centralized nation-state of his liking, one long sought by his Republican-Whig-Federalist predecessors. In order to do that, Lincoln had to crush the Jeffersonian decentralized tradition, which was still strong in America, and particularly so in the South.
Along the way, you’ll learn of Lincoln’s white supremacist views, his grand plan to deport all African-Americans, his lobbying efforts on behalf of the railroad industry, his tyrannical efforts to crush opposition to his plans, his inflationary economic policies, and his nasty legacy.
You must read this book. It will forever change how you view American history.
JB
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