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What if you were told that the revered leader Abraham Lincoln was actually a political tyrant who stifled his opponents by suppressing their civil rights? What if you learned that the man so affectionately referred to as the “Great Emancipator” supported white supremacy and pledged not to interfere with slavery in the South? Would you suddenly start to question everything you thought you knew about Lincoln and his presidency?

You should.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo, who ignited a fierce debate about Lincoln’s legacy with his book The Real Lincoln, now presents a litany of stunning new revelations that explode the most enduring (and pernicious) myths about our sixteenth president. Marshaling an astonishing amount of new evidence, Lincoln Unmasked offers an alarming portrait of a political manipulator and opportunist who bears little resemblance to the heroic, stoic, and principled figure of mainstream history.

Did you know that Lincoln . . .

• did NOT save the union? In fact, Lincoln did more than any other individual to destroy the voluntary union the Founding Fathers recognized.

• did NOT want to free the slaves? Lincoln, who did not believe in equality of the races, wanted the Constitution to make slavery “irrevocable.”

• was NOT a champion of the Constitution? Contrary to his high-minded rhetoric, Lincoln repeatedly trampled on the Constitution—and even issued an arrest warrant for the chief justice of the United States!

• was NOT a great statesman? Lincoln was actually a warmonger who manipulated his own people into a civil war.

• did NOT utter many of his most admired quotations? DiLorenzo exposes a legion of statements that have been falsely attributed to Lincoln for generations—usually to enhance his image.

In addition to detailing Lincoln’s offenses against the principles of freedom, equality, and states’ rights, Lincoln Unmasked exposes the vast network of academics, historians, politicians, and other “gatekeepers” who have sanitized his true beliefs and willfully distorted his legacy. DiLorenzo reveals how the deification of Lincoln reflects a not-so-hidden agenda to expand the size and scope of the American state far beyond what the Founding Fathers envisioned—an expansion that Lincoln himself began.

The hagiographers have shaped Lincoln’s image to the point that it has become more fiction than fact. With Lincoln Unmasked, DiLorenzo shows us an Abraham Lincoln without the rhetoric, lies, and political bias that have clouded a disastrous president’s enduring damage to the nation.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Publishing Group; Reprint edition (November 27, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0307338428
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0307338426
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.51 x 8.25 inches
Reviewer: J. Mccormack
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent and Informative
Review: Wow, what an absolutely amazing book! I have heard many lecture, read many smaller writings, and discovered so, so many truths about Lincoln over the past 20 years, and because of that I have never actually read a full treatise on him from start to finish (figuring I knew so much already). Well, I will say that most all of the topics in this book I was already aware of general thoughts about, but for once they all came together into one theme of why and how things went down.The author pulls so many other resources into this story, that this becomes not just his opinion, but a good mixture from multiple scholars, showing DiLorenzo is not just delivering his own personal attack on Lincoln. This book (and so many others) should be mandatory reading for all school students - but alas that would go against the main reasons the government school teach historical lies to begin with.As he points out, the Lincoln cult gatekeepers have been quite successful in keeping the truth under wraps from the public eye, and they surely hope that books like this make little impact on the public view. As I said, I have known many of these facts for decades, and find it so sad that there are so many people who are still so ignorant and deceived about how Lincoln intentionally destroyed this nation from its founding principles and establishment. This book shows how that was the exact intent of Lincoln and his people, and how they sought to do so for decades before his election and the war.DiLorenzo looks at the early years of Lincoln as an attorney for the major railroads, and the economic goals of his ilk. He examines in detail the economic idea and affects of the tariffs that were fought to get into place, and how those led to the war. Honestly, any body who knows anything about the War Between the States time frame, and still tries to propagate an idea of the war being over slavery is just so sadly deluded, and a good government school bred "citizen."The author does a great job of giving a brief overview and exposition of the sad attempts by modern "scholars" who continue spewing forth the myths and lies about Lincoln and the socialistic party ideas that have been rebutted and destroyed time and time again by real historians.If you are so uninformed as to still feel that the war was fought over Southern slavery, or that Lincoln was "the great emancipator" or lover of the black race, or (God forbid) a good Christian man, then this book is a great starting point for you to get some real education. Not only will you get some truth, but you also will get an extensive listing of a wealth of other resource material from other sources that will likewise assist in dispelling the myths of Lincoln and those of the "Lincoln cult" that works so hard today to keep you ignorant.

Reviewer: Andrew S. Rogers
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Continuing a vital work of reclamation
Review: With this book, Thomas J. DiLorenzo continues his mission of taking a firehose to the feet of clay beneath America's martyr-saint. "Lincoln Unmasked" is an essential companion to the author's earlier The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, not only for additional evidence provided to support the historical revisionism, but also for his analysis of the "Lincoln Cult" -- historians and pundits on both the Right and the Left who see in Lincoln justification for their own centralizing agendas.Taking on a nation's mythology is a serious undertaking, and Abraham Lincoln long ago ascended from the realm of human politician to that of mytho-poetic symbol and even Christ-figure. That makes dissenters like DiLorenzo not just historians with a different point of view, but Judas Iscariot or worse. I wrote in my review of "The Real Lincoln" and I'll say it again: I admire DiLorenzo for his willingness to withstand these assaults for the sake of truth as he sees it.But the facts laid out in "Lincoln Unmasked" are more than just "truth as he sees it." They're aspects of Lincoln that his defenders not only refuse to confront, but deny even exist. So much easier to smear Father Abraham's critics as "neo-confederates" or even defenders of slavery than to square Lincoln's modern image with his actual words and deeds. (When I recommended "The Real Lincoln" in an online forum once, someone else discounted it as "a book John Wilkes Booth would love." I'm sure Booth loved fuzzy puppies too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to tie my pugs in a bag and throw them in the creek.)DiLorenzo has a commitment to primary sources, and so those who would discount "Lincoln Unmasked" must also deal with the author's extensive and well-catalogued research. One of the things I've always appreciated about Mises Institute writers is their commitment, not only to bibliographies per se, but also to listing additional resources for interested students. DiLorenzo's appendix, "What They *Don't* Want You to Read," is itself valuable reading. As usual, I've come away with a list of books to add to my find-time-to-get-to pile.Assaulting the Lincoln Lie is not an act of nihilist destruction. Instead, it's a radical ("to the root") effort to reclaim America's *original* founding story, the one Lincoln himself so hated: an America that emphasized local communities, free trade, voluntary associations, decentralized government, sound economics, peace and freedom. It's one thing to say we may never recreate such a nation, but something else -- something far worse -- to insist we must deny it ever existed. That's what makes "Lincoln Unmasked" both so brave and so important.

Reviewer: Duncan Druhl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Why should we know it? Because it explains so many things that never made sense before. For example, Lincoln was the main lawyer for the railroad companies, a fact not generally publicised because that puts him clearly at the forefront of the government/business relationship that turned a formerly Jeffersonian, free enterprise nation into a bloated bureaucracy bullying state nation, where the government's business became helping big business succeed no matter what it took. It was Lincoln's high flying railroad career that allowed him to court Mary Todd, as The Todds of Lexington would never have allowed a mere country lawyer to see their daughter. I know, I used to live there.The book details many parts and aspects of the Lincoln story and his part in completely altering the character of the US, virtually eliminating states' rights which had been predominant before his presidency. It shows that the kindly Lincoln figure is not much but an invention of those historians who like the grandiose views of "the state", where the real Lincoln, for example, had the black leaders of the day to his office in 1863 and tried to convince them to take their followers and move to Liberia, out of the US as Mr. Lincoln had little use for black folks; which was evidenced also by his support for the free soil movement... one that prohibited blacks in the "new" territories.The book also references additional volumes by other authors to find more information on Lincoln that is not plagued by the colouration of the historians who have made their careers kindly describing a man who purposefully began a war that cost 620,000 lives and subjugated the nation to an overweening government unlike any that had come before it.However, if you are a statist and love big government, this may not be the book for you.

Reviewer: William Peynsaert
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The most important idea this book holds is that the American civil war was a tariff war and not so much about slavery. Also interesting is the idea that most countries managed to abolish slavery peacefully. Lincoln needed a war to accomplish it and it seems a better statesman could have done so peacefully. I still like to study Lincoln as a versatile, adaptible and cunning and well-versed politician, but I'm starting to have serious doubts about his 'good' intentions. Good book.Behind the book are very neo-liberal ideas by the way. Which wasn't a plus for me, but a turn-off. As a book on Lincoln I liked it. If the book's hidden message is that we need more 'trickle down economy' I don't.

Reviewer: dikdok
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Lincoln is not the saintly character that is normally portrayed. He pursued an unconstitutional war against the right of the the Southern States to secede and in which hundreds of thousands died, including civilians. This was not to rid the United States of slavery - that became a convenient figleaf. (Lincoln was a white supremacist who wanted to send the blacks to Liberia or Haiti - anywhere but the US.) The real reason for the war was to shift power from the States to the federal government in Washington and create a Republic.

Reviewer: Dale Rusling
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: What's so remarkable about this well-annotated and researched book isn't the fact that the nation, as a constitutionally-limited republic, was lost during Lincoln's term, and that he was the prime cause of that loss. What IS so remarkable is that the press, the government education system and a whole host of other deceitful characters and institutions have covered up and hidden this fact.That's remarkable and very, very sad. The united States isn't any more.

Reviewer: Karl Skid Marks The First.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Yes and three cheers for Tom DiLorenzo who seemingly single handed is sticking it on this blood thirsty monster. It would be nice to see Tom stick the boot in Winston Churchill like he does here for Lincoln. But Lincoln is ripped apart and its lovely to read. A fine companion volume to Toms other book "The real Lincoln".