Learn About the Life of Abraham Lincoln

Iconoclasts are everywhere these days. It’s not surprising to see them take a few pokes at Lincoln. DiLorenzo, to whom Antonio refers in the previous post, is one of the more visible and enthusiastic. To hear him tell it, Lincoln was – just for starters - largely indifferent to the plight of slaves and blithely unfaithful to the Constitution. While Lincoln, were he alive today, would be the first to insist that he be remembered with all of his flaws intact, those flaws were not of the nature norof the scale DiLorenzo claims. If anything, his flaws may make Lincoln even more endearing. As for the rest – well, I think DiLorenzo takes facts outside of their context and misses whole layers of complexity. I’m not suggesting one avoid his books – just that, after doing so, one ought to read several of the more well-researched books that approach Lincoln with more facts and a more nuanced analysis of those facts. Jordan Camenker

Jordan camenker of FL 1:18AM June 06, 2010