Re: POLITICS: Lincoln and Civil War (was Ron )

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On 1/14/08, Ancient Eyeball Recipe <implode7@...> wrote:

> >> > DiLorenzo is probably by far the most vociferous critic of

> >> > Lincoln with essentially that perspective. He's written _The Real

> >> > Lincoln_ and more recently _Lincoln Unmasked_. He writes out of

> >> > land.

> There is a book by Lerone that got some press, but I haven¹t read

> it..

I haven't either, but DiLorenzo had some praise for this book yesterday:

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo139.html

Snippet:

But they've got a big problem (more than one, actually). The big

problem is the publication of a 662-page book by the distinguished

African-American author Lerone , Jr. entitled Forced into

Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream. The book was originally

published in 1999 and was recently released in paperback. was

a longtime managing editor of Ebony magazine and, among other things,

the author of a biography of Luther King, Jr., What Manner of

Man. Although several " Civil War " publications have labeled yours

truly as the preeminent Lincoln critic of our day, Forced into Glory

is a much more powerful critique of Dishonest Abe than anything I have

ever written. The Lincoln Cult, which would not dare to personally

attack a serious African-American scholar like , has largely

ignored the book instead.

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Chris