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Why was Lincoln "great?"
06-24-2013, 07:58 PM
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RE: Why was Lincoln "great?"
I've always been a student of the assassination, Lincoln the man, his family and his times. I've never really looked too deeply into his politics. I just finished Bill Richter's "Sic Semper Tyrannis: Why John Wilkes Booth Shot Abraham Lincoln". I have to say, Bill did a great job of stripping off Old Abe's varnish - it showed how Booth would have viewed him in the context of the times. It really does put a different spin on things. I think it's important that we look at history that way.

Just like some of today's politicians, Lincoln was put on a pedestal. Closer inspection and attention to the mores of different time give an entirely different view of a man who is now an American God in the public's minds.

I do, however, believe Lincoln was the right man at the right time, given his lenient views on binding up the nation's wounds. How the wounds were inflicted is another story in itself.

"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg"
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Why was Lincoln "great?" - Rob Wick - 06-24-2013, 01:54 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - LincolnMan - 06-24-2013, 02:43 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - Rob Wick - 06-25-2013, 06:44 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - Gene C - 06-24-2013, 03:48 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - JMadonna - 06-24-2013, 04:52 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - L Verge - 06-24-2013, 04:58 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - Rob Wick - 06-24-2013, 05:52 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - J. Beckert - 06-24-2013 07:58 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - J. Beckert - 06-24-2013, 10:02 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - brtmchl - 06-25-2013, 12:50 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - HerbS - 06-26-2013, 07:11 AM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - JMadonna - 06-30-2013, 06:56 AM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - LincolnMan - 04-10-2014, 04:01 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - LincolnMan - 04-10-2014, 08:23 PM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - LincolnMan - 04-14-2014, 05:17 AM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - LincolnMan - 04-14-2014, 09:10 AM
RE: Why was Lincoln "great?" - RJNorton - 04-14-2014, 09:15 AM

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