[---][center][large]Thomas J DiLorenzo[/large][/center][---][center][large]The Real Lincoln[/large][/center]
[justify]Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in American history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend.
Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralized-as the Founding Fathers intended- to a highly centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free trade.
To accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted the Constitution, trampled states' rights, and launched a devastating Civil War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to this provocative book, 600,000 American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause of ending slavery but for the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of the states to the supremacy of the federal government. Lincoln's aggressive agenda triggered an uncontrollable swelling of big government, which has been tightening its vise grip on our republic to this very day.
You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in school-a side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war.
THOMAS J. DILORENZO is a professor of economics in the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola College in Maryland. Specializing in economic history and political economy, he is the author of 11 books and over 70 articles in academic journals, and he is also widely published in such popular outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Readers Digest, USA Today, National Review, Barron's, and numerous other national publications. He lives in Clarksville, Maryland.[/justify]
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[justify]Praise for THE REAL LINCOLN
"A devastating critique of America's most famous president."
- JOSEPH SOBRAN, commentator and nationally syndicated columnist
"Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. Thomas J. DiLorenzo gives an account of how this came about in The Real Lincoln,"
- WALTER E. WILLIAMS, from the foreword
"A peacefully negotiated secession was the best way to handle all the problems lacing Americans in 1860. A war of coercion was Lincoln's creation. It sometimes takes a century or more to bring an important historical event into perspective. This study does just that and leaves the reader asking, 'Why didn't we know this before?'"
- DONALD LIVINGSTON, professor of philosophy, Emory University
"Professor DiLorenzo has penetrated to the very heart and core of American history with a laser beam of fact and analysis."
- CLYDE WILSON, professor of history, University of South Carolina, and editor, The John C. Calhoun Papers[/justify]
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[large]Benjamin Franklin :[/large]
[justify]«... Dans tous les pays où les Juifs se sont installés en nombre, ils ont abaissé le niveau moral, discrédité l'intégrité commerciale, ils ont fait bande à part sans s'assimiler jamais aux autres citoyens. Ils ont tourné la religion chrétienne en ridicule et tenté de la miner... Ils ont bâti un État dans l'État et quand on leur a opposé de la résistance, ils ont essayé d'étrangler financièrement le pays... Si vous ne les excluez pas des Etats-Unis dans cette constitution, en moins de deux-cents ans ils y fourmilleront en quantités si considérables qu'ils domineront et dévoreront notre patrie et changeront la forme du gouvernement... Si vous n'interdisez pas aux Juifs l'accès de ce pays, en moins de deux-cents ans, vos descendants travailleront la terre pour pourvoir à la subsistance d'intrus qui resteront à se frotter les mains derrière leurs comptoirs. Je vous avertis, Messieurs, si vous n'excluez pas pour toujours les Juifs de notre communauté, nos enfants vous maudiront dans vos tombes...»
[small]Benjamin Franklin (17 janvier 1706 à Boston - 17 avril 1790 à Philadelphie) est l'une des plus illustres figures de l'histoire américaine, à la fois écrivain, physicien et diplomate.
D'abord imprimeur à Philadelphie, il se fait connaître par le succès de ses almanachs. Attaché à la liberté, homme des lumières complet, franc-maçon de la tradition britannique, précurseur des « encyclopédistes » et inventeur, il démontre la nature électrique de la foudre. Administrateur, philanthrope et élu de Philadelphie, il représente, à Londres, les colons de Pennsylvanie. Nommé Maître des postes des colonies, il est chargé de protester contre les taxes britanniques au nom des colons. Co-rédacteur et signataire de la Déclaration d'indépendance des États-Unis d'Amérique de 1776, il est l'un des « pères fondateurs des États-Unis », dont il devient le premier ambassadeur en France.[/small][/justify]