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Title: Quote this book at your own risk
Review: First things first, Lincoln denied Thomas Jefferson's vision for America as an agrarian society. He was an old-line Henry Clay Whig, in favor of banks, internal improvements, and protective tariffs. DiLorenzo is correct in this. Lincoln was absolutely a Federalist. Other Federalists: a couple guys you may have heard of named George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. If you want to make a case against the Federalists, that's OK. It's also OK to re-examine the lives of our cultural icons; there should be no sacred cows. But DiLorenzo so distorts Lincoln's record that it absolutely fails as a biography of Lincoln.In short, read this if you like, but be prepared to be lumped in with the 9/11 "truthers" and Holocaust deniers if you try to use any of the arguments contained herein.
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