[achilles2000]

Horowitz falls far short of “knowing his history” regarding Lincoln. Thomas DiLorenzo does a good job of collecting Lincoln’s more interesting dictatorial actions.

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Horowitz falls far short of “knowing his history” regarding Lincoln. Thomas DiLorenzo does a good job of collecting Lincoln’s more interesting dictatorial actions.

Note what Horowitz says:

On May 18, 1864 Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order to arrest some of the journalists and editors of two New York publications that printed and published what they knew to be a forged Presidential proclamation calling for 400,000 more troops and a new draft. It was an act of treason to raise up resistance to the Union during a time of war. The act warranted imprisonment.

Did Tommy Delusional tell you that in his books?

Maybe Tommy's the one in need of a history lesson.

[DesScorp]

Horowitz falls far short of “knowing his history” regarding Lincoln. Thomas DiLorenzo does a good job of collecting Lincoln’s more interesting dictatorial actions.

I'm reading one of Lorenzo's anti-Abe books. It's a little too over the top. One thing I've noticed is that it's really, really hard to get a balanced Lincoln biography. They tend to be utter hagiographies (like Carl Sandburg's worship), or utter hatefests. I've stumbled on to an old history from Yale (dating from 1919) that's probably the most balanced account of Lincoln and the Civil War I've yet come across.

[Non-Sequitur]

Thomas DiLorenzo does a good job of collecting Lincoln’s more interesting dictatorial actions.

The more interesting Southron fairy tales you mean.