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In reply to the discussion: NC lawmaker calls Abraham Lincoln a tyrant like Hitler [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)51. Bewildering
The first link is to LewRockwell.com
The Southern Poverty Law Center labels the Ludwig Von Mises Institute (which he founded) as a neo confederate. They advocate radical right wing positions like the abolition of child labor laws.
The link you sent is for a book "Lincoln Reconsidered" by David Donald who admired Lincoln.
David M. Potter, known as a Lincoln scholar, said Donald's biography of Charles Sumner portrayed, "Sumner as a man with acute psychological inadequacies" and exposed Sumner's "facade of pompous rectitude." Donald's evenhanded approach to Sumner, Potter concluded, was a model for biographers working with a difficult subject. "If it does not make Sumner attractive [the book] certainly makes him understandable."[5]
Donald argues that the American Civil War was a needless war caused or hastened by the fanaticism of people like Charles Sumner; he admires Abraham Lincoln.[6]
Here is sample of the reviews of DiLorenzo's work
Writing for The Daily Beast, Rich Lowry described DiLorenzo's technique in this book as the following: "His scholarship, such as it is, consists of rummaging through the record for anything he can find to damn Lincoln, stripping it of any nuance or context, and piling on pejorative adjectives. In DiLorenzo, the Lincoln-haters have found a champion with the judiciousness and the temperament they deserve."[23]
Reviewing for The Independent Review, a think tank associated with DiLorenzo, Richard M. Gamble described the book "travesty of historical method and documentation". He said the book was plagued by a "labyrinth of [historical and grammatical] errors", and concluded that DiLorenzo has "earned the ... ridicule of his critics."[24]
Reviews in The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly both stated that the book seemed directed at unnamed scholars who had praised Lincoln's contributions. Justin Ewers criticized DiLorenzo, saying this book "is more of a diatribe against a mostly unnamed group of Lincoln scholars than a real historical analysis.
His wild assertions for example, that Lincoln held 'lifelong white supremacist views' don't help his argument."[30] Publishers Weekly described this as a "screed,"
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The one President that is truly representative of the GOP is Gerald Ford.
Virtual Burlesque
Apr 2017
#45
I applaud his courage for saying what his party believes but is too cowardly to admit in public.
LonePirate
Apr 2017
#8
Expect more comments like this in the future from these Pope/Koch extremists.
bathroommonkey76
Apr 2017
#14
Durham/Chapel Hill are two places in NC that have kept the NC Dems afloat.
bathroommonkey76
Apr 2017
#23
Imagine that! A North Caroline Republican state legislator calls Lincoln, the founder ...
radicalliberal
Apr 2017
#13
Pittman just introduced a bill for NC's secession of the United States- For Real- Not a joke. lol
bathroommonkey76
Apr 2017
#17
Next Pittman proposal: "Let's round them all up and put them back in the plantations"
dalton99a
Apr 2017
#69
I actually think free and fair titles to their properties should have been transferred to the newly-
KingCharlemagne
Apr 2017
#85
Listen, dude, I'm all about studying Civil War history. It's fascinating stuff.
Tommy_Carcetti
Apr 2017
#22
But he's a republican, and they all like to boast they're "the party of Lincoln".
George II
Apr 2017
#27
No. The SOUTH started the war, both in trying to secede and in firing the first shots. nt
Honeycombe8
Apr 2017
#59
Yeah, they like Hitler, until it's time to attack the Dems. Then Hitler was horrible, and the Dems
Mc Mike
Apr 2017
#74
hitler again? Twice in a 24 hour news cycle repukes are making hitler comparisons?
truthisfreedom
Apr 2017
#70
Yes, Virginia, there are so-called adults who are still fighting the Civil War. n/t
MrModerate
Apr 2017
#71