The Problem with Lincoln

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

• Publisher: Regnery History
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781684510184
• eBook ISBN: 9781684510689
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: History

The Problem with Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was widely and deeply unpopular during his presidency. And for good reason.He overturned our original constitutional order, violated the rights of Americans both North and South, massively inflated the federal government, and plunged the nation into a wholly unnecessary war. Why? Not to free the slaves, as his hagiographers would have you believe, but out of personal ambition, greed for power, and, incidentally, to enrich the railroad interests that supported his political career.Court historians have turned King Lincoln into a secular saint, but what did Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries know that has been forgotten or covered up? Bestselling author Thomas J. DiLorenzo debunks the pious myths to reveal the real Lincoln.In The Problem with Lincoln, you'll learn:

• Why Lincoln was willing to accept a constitutional amendment guaranteeing slavery forever
• Why no American in 1861, Northerner or Southerner, believed that Lincoln had invaded the South to emancipate the slaves
• Why secession doesn't fit the Constitution's definition of treason—but Lincoln's war on the South does
• Lincoln's greatest failure: not ending slavery peacefully, as the rest of the world managed to do

If you want the unvarnished truth about our sixteenth president, read The Problem with Lincoln.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Chapter 1: Un-Founding Father
• Chapter 2: The Racial Saint
• Chapter 3: The President Who Invaded His Own Country
• Chapter 4: War Crimes
• Chapter 5: Lincoln’s Greatest Failure
• Chapter 6: King Lincoln
• Chapter 7: Consolidation Bottomed on Corruption: The Hamilton–Clay–Lincoln Agenda
• Chapter 8: Lincoln’s Lies
• Chapter 9: The Invention of “Saint Lincoln”
• Chapter 10: What the Lincoln Myth Means for Americans Today
• Appendix 1: The Crittenden–Johnson Resolution (Also Known as the War Aims Resolution)
• Appendix 2: Lincoln’s Letter to Horace Greeley
• Appendix 3: First Two Paragraphs of Lincoln’s Speech in Debate with Stephen Douglas, Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
• Appendix 4: Jefferson Davis’s First Inaugural Address
• Appendix 5: Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861)
• Appendix 6: Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York, July 26, 1788
• Appendix 7: Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island, May 29, 1790
• Appendix 8: Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia, June 26, 1788
• Appendix 9: The Corwin Amendment
• Appendix 10: The Emancipation Proclamation
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright