Book Review
Unpopular Problem

Vol. 36, No. 20

October 19, 2020

Unpopular Problem

Evidence-based research shows Lincoln’s many flaws. ...

Laurence M. Vance

It’s unfortunate that there is so much bad scholarship on Abraham Lincoln that evidence-based research, such as this showing Lincoln’s many flaws, is an outlier.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo book The Problem With Lincoln

The Problem With Lincoln, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2020, viii + 248 pages, hardcover.

Not only have more biographies and books been written about our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, than any other president of the United States, I think it is safe to say that few men have had as much written about them as Abraham Lincoln. The problem with most of these works about Lincoln is that they are more hagiographical than historical. Thank God that Thomas J. DiLorenzo has devoted a good part of his life to rectifying this historical injustice.

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