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Which Abraham Lincoln biography is the Best One?
June 15, 2010
| Winstonwolf33
Posted on 06/15/2010 12:04:20 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
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To: winstonwolf33
I really liked,The Living Lincoln: The Man and His Times, in His Own Words;Culled from the 9-volume Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, this book assembles the best of Lincoln's writings on himself and the issues of his day, creating in effect an engrossing autobiography of our greatest president. Skillful editing shapes this volume comprised of letters, speeches, and documents into an intimate self-portrait of Lincoln, from his early years in Springfield to the day before he died.
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posted on
06/15/2010 12:55:37 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free (http://teapartypatriots.org)
To: Genoa
“That came later.”
Ohh...different problem, eh? Like in AZ?
Don’t worry, State’s Rights will just be a memory soon.
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posted on
06/15/2010 12:56:10 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: Fred
With Malice Toward None Except when he sent his invasionary army down south.
To: jessduntno
Ariz. lawmaker takes aim at automatic citizenship
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2535172/posts
Honest Abe would never have stood for this. It’s an outrage!
What the hell do these States think they are doing, anyway? Trying to give their citizens what they want. Harrrrummmmph.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:08:29 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: Tublecane
I read Team of Rivals. Liked it so much, I read it a second time.
To: speciallybland
Except when he sent his invasionary army down south. If the South hadn't started the war there wouldn't have been any reason for any 'invasionary army'.
To: Tublecane
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Not bad if you are a confirmed leftist.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:11:38 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: speciallybland; Non-Sequitur
My friend N-S is right, you know. Lincoln held off as long as he could. He wanted to send food to the men at Fort Sumter, but SC considered that a casus belli and it was the pretext they needed to open fire. Et voila - civil war.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:15:27 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Luke 12:2)
To: Genoa
“My friend N-S is right, you know. Lincoln held off as long as he could. He wanted to send food to the men at Fort Sumter, but SC considered that a casus belli and it was the pretext they needed to open fire. Et voila - civil war.”
Damn good reason to kill half a million people, too! When do we invade those bastrds in AZ?
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:17:45 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: jessduntno
Damn good reason to kill half a million people, too! When do we invade those bastrds in AZ? I suppose Lincoln could have surrendered once the confederates attacked Sumter. But then again, FDR could have surrendered after Pearl Harbor, Bush could have turned a blind eye over the invasion of Kuwait, and do on. Imagine all the lives that would have saved.
To: jessduntno
I read stupid comments like that and immediately recall the breathless moronicisms of the Lancet study.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:28:43 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: winstonwolf33
“America’s Caesar”, by Greg Loren Durand. Not exactly a 100% biography — goes deeper than that — but an excellent read.
To: Non-Sequitur
I suppose Lincoln could have surrendered once the confederates attacked Sumter. But then again, FDR could have surrendered after Pearl Harbor...”
Freakin Alinsky himself would have blushed at THAT moral equivalency...
Good grief...get a grip...that war was gonna happen and you gotta be shittin yourself and everyone else spouting crap like this...go talk to an indoctrinated third grader like your other buddies that think that killer Linclon was a hero.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:30:24 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: rockrr
The Lancet study.”
The one written by BOIL?
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:31:12 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: jessduntno
Good grief...get a grip...that war was gonna happen and you gotta be shittin yourself and everyone else spouting crap like this...go talk to an indoctrinated third grader like your other buddies that think that killer Linclon was a hero. Sometimes the only response for crap like your's is crap like that.
To: Genoa
My comment had nothing to do with sneaking into Washington in disguise. I wouldn't be the one to call that unreasonable give the threat(s) he believed he faced.
But I guess you don't know "the rest of the story." Maybe the biographies or histories you have read didn't bother to include it?
ML/NJ
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:33:32 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: Non-Sequitur
“Sometimes the only response for crap like your’s is crap like that.”
Sorry Skippy, but that shit of yours was so weak it wouldn’t have passed the smell test of the Congregation at Rev. Wright’s. Good of you to admit it though. Keep it up, you’ll have some integrity some day.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:35:12 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: winstonwolf33
I highly recommend
The Real Lincoln by Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo. It makes the case against Lincoln with all the honesty, intelligence and good grace that the Confederate cause is known for.
And after you're finished laughing at it, it makes a very passable chew toy for your dog.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
“And after you’re finished laughing at it, it makes a very passable chew toy for your dog.”
Perhaps she will let you have a taste on your next date.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:52:03 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Afghanistan: Lithium is the new oil. Where are the NO WAR FOR LITHIUM protests?)
To: Tublecane
But I think Goodwin is a hack historian and mediocre writer.She also had an affair with LBJ, which makes me throw up in my mouth.
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posted on
06/15/2010 1:55:15 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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