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Lincolnoltry is a disease. You evidently are afflicted. Try to read beyond Harry Jaffa and Claremont, if you read.

Btw, do you have something in particular that DiLorenzo wrote that is actually wrong - as opposed to your thinking that whatever Lincoln did was really swell while DiLorenzo (and others) don’t agree?

Lincoln was an interesting man. He certainly was not the sainted figure he has been portrayed to be, but his assassination was a tragedy for the country as a whole, not merely the South, because those that came to power him were far worse statists.


9 posted on 10/24/2009 1:06:43 PM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: achilles2000; Non-Sequitur
Lincolnoltry is a disease. You evidently are afflicted.

And stupidity isn't? Tommy DiLorenzo's a carrier of that malady.

Try to read beyond Harry Jaffa and Claremont, if you read.

DiLorenzo isn't getting "beyond" Jaffa. Really, pick up David Donald or any reputable historian or biographer and you'll see just how threadbare and worthless DiLorenzo's books really are.

Btw, do you have something in particular that DiLorenzo wrote that is actually wrong - as opposed to your thinking that whatever Lincoln did was really swell while DiLorenzo (and others) don’t agree?

The classic example was DiLorenzo saying "In virtually every one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln made it a point to champion the nationalization of money and to demonize Jackson and the Democrats for their opposition to it."

That's simply not true. It's wholly false.

Go here for more mistakes or errors in DiLorenzo's work. To be fair they aren't all fabrications. Some are honest differences of interpretation, but DiLorenzo's unreliability is manifest.

Go here for a review by a professor sympathetic to DiLorenzo's thesis in a magazine that's likewise friendly to him. It's quite a scathing review of his The Real Lincoln. Somebody will doubtless say that if the reviewer agrees with DiLorenzo's argument, it doesn't matter, but really, if Tommy can't get a good review from his own friends, is it any wonder so many other people can't abide him?

12 posted on 10/25/2009 12:09:19 PM PDT by x
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To: achilles2000
Lincolnoltry is a disease. You evidently are afflicted.

And you have a serious case of Lincolnloathing. A malady peculiar to Southron supporters where they see Lincoln responsible for everything up to and including a rainy day. It's marked by misquotes, quotes out of context, out-and-out falsehoods, and excessive faith in the accuracy of Southron websites. Fortunately while it's often amusing, it's seldom fatal.

16 posted on 10/25/2009 12:34:22 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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