The blind never do.
"In sum, LINCOLN'S CONSTITUTION is a partisan work, more a lawyer's brief for the Lincoln administration to be argued before a contemporary American court or group of academics than an exercise in historiography." - Kevin Gutzman
I gave you a link to two other scolars who did, both professors.
You gave me links to two unscholarly hack jobs published in unscholarly publications such as the Claremont Review of Books, which is every bit as partisan as Farber himself.
I, on the other hand, have given you a total of three reviews - all from refereed scholarly journals - that have one or more severe criticisms of flaws in Farber's book. Naturally you ignore it and pretend they don't say what they plainly do.
You gave me three reviews?
I only saw one.
Where are the other two reviews?
One is a Prof. of History at N.Texas and the other at Rice University.
famous historian visited my undergraduate university half a century ago and announced that, except for a minor item or two such as a history of the quartermaster corps, the major work on the Civil War was completed. Since then several significant books have been published. Daniel Farber's Lincoln's Constitution is one of them. Reviewed by: Donald K. Pickens, Department of History, University of North Texas. Published by: H-USA (December, 2003) http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=103401078008870
Farber's Lincoln's Constitution deserves a place in this roster of important legal-constitutional history titles. Farber both restates the complex issues facing the bifurcating Union, 1861–65, and connects some, including federalism, judicial review, and presidents' crisis powers, to their prewar evolutions, wartime uses, and post-9/11 reappearances, thereby offering readers many useful insights. For example, he concludes correctly that "In practical terms ... the key issue [in the southern states' decisions for secession] was not sovereignty but power" (44). Harold M. Hyman Rice University http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/22.3/br_10.html