Not too long ago, the myth of Lincoln was accepted everywhere. The Greatest President, the Savior of the Union, the … you get the idea. His true role — as dictator, the launcher of a horrific and unnecessary war (other countries abolished slavery peacefully), an inflationist and pioneer of the income and inheritance taxes, a centralizer, a police statist, and the wrecker of the Constitution — was covered up.
Tom DiLorenzo changed all that with two brilliant books — The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked. He undid the vast apparatus of establishment propaganda with compelling written research and scholarship. No statist professor is safe today from contradiction by smart students, thanks to Tom. No more pulling the wool over our eyes.
A fearless and productive scholar, Tom has produced 14 books altogether, and each has helped build the foundation of liberty and historical truth. So, of course, he has been denounced and demonized by all the usual suspects, from left-liberal congressmen to the New York Times. To no effect, I should add, because Tom lets nothing stop him.
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