The Real Lincoln
The Real Lincoln
The biography The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo gives readers a whole new perspective about Lincoln that they never had before. His meticulous research, passionate imagery, and skillful writing techniques, all are able to bring knowledge to the reader’s minds about our sixteenth president that we were never aware of before. Lincoln was always affiliated with the topics of equality, ending slavery, social fairness, and much alike, but the quotes stated by politician/president through out the biography have twisted these perceptions to ones that relate to tyrannical, selfish, and deceitful. Lincoln was only human, and also a politician, so dishonesty, fraudulent actions must come with the package, just likes any other politic. Growing up I have taken numerous amounts of History classes; all have taught me one thing: Lincoln was an honorable man of history; but after being captivated by DiLorenzo and his findings, my prior perception of Lincoln has been extremely altered.
DiLorenzo makes the readers understand many major points; one being that Lincoln permitted the horrible and everlasting Civil War to occur. According to the book, Lincoln left nonmilitary legislation to concentrate on the battle and by not allowing any residents in the North withdraw or retire from their part in the war. “Lincoln famously micromanaged the war effort, and the burning of the entire Southern towns was an essential feature of his war strategy” (DiLorenzo, 7). Many thought that Lincoln’s role in the war against the North and the South was trying to centralize the two, but in reality he tore the two apart day by day. During this time, many other countries abolished slavery, which proves DiLorenzo’s point that Lincoln could have carried on the trend to the US just as easily. Lincoln just wanted to create a ware to avoid the topic of slavery and he states so in the book: “A war was not necessary to free the slaves, but it was necessary to destroy the most
The biography The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo gives readers a whole new perspective about Lincoln that they never had before. His meticulous research, passionate imagery, and skillful writing techniques, all are able to bring knowledge to the reader’s minds about our sixteenth president that we were never aware of before. Lincoln was always affiliated with the topics of equality, ending slavery, social fairness, and much alike, but the quotes stated by politician/president through out the biography have twisted these perceptions to ones that relate to tyrannical, selfish, and deceitful. Lincoln was only human, and also a politician, so dishonesty, fraudulent actions must come with the package, just likes any other politic. Growing up I have taken numerous amounts of History classes; all have taught me one thing: Lincoln was an honorable man of history; but after being captivated by DiLorenzo and his findings, my prior perception of Lincoln has been extremely altered.
DiLorenzo makes the readers understand many major points; one being that Lincoln permitted the horrible and everlasting Civil War to occur. According to the book, Lincoln left nonmilitary legislation to concentrate on the battle and by not allowing any residents in the North withdraw or retire from their part in the war. “Lincoln famously micromanaged the war effort, and the burning of the entire Southern towns was an essential feature of his war strategy” (DiLorenzo, 7). Many thought that Lincoln’s role in the war against the North and the South was trying to centralize the two, but in reality he tore the two apart day by day. During this time, many other countries abolished slavery, which proves DiLorenzo’s point that Lincoln could have carried on the trend to the US just as easily. Lincoln just wanted to create a ware to avoid the topic of slavery and he states so in the book: “A war was not necessary to free the slaves, but it was necessary to destroy the most