Not bad if you are a confirmed leftist.
Yeah, I've also heard that book has a liberal slant.
Okay, the leading contenders so far, based on this post, would have to be: With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates, Lincoln by David Herbert Donald, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg, The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words by Ronald C. White, and The Living Lincoln: The Man and His Times In His Own Words by Paul M Angle.
Thanks everyone for their contributions! (although I'm quite surprised my post generated all that Lincoln-bashing. Who knew?)
What say you, Minneapolis Steve? Any recommendations you've gleaned from your Quarterly Reviews over the years?
It's a very readable book. I suggest you read it for yourself and decide on your own if it has a slant of any kind.
“Thanks everyone for their contributions! (although I’m quite surprised my post generated all that Lincoln-bashing. Who knew?)”
Well, as Mr. Truman once said...”I don’t give ‘em hell, I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
That’s the interesting thing about war and ideology...it usually exists on both sides, motivates people and never dies off. So it was in the first Civil War, so it would be in the second. It just waits for a chance to come around again.
If the Federal government decides to impose its will on Conservatives, there might be quite a few strange bedfellows, I think.
There is a very small, very vocal, and uber-rabid coven of Lost Causers skulking around FreeRepublic. They're amusing in short doses, but I would avoid prolonged contact...