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Title: Its commentary, not history.
Review: This book reads like its falls somewhere between the Dixiecrat pages of "Southern Partisan" magazine and the leftist historic revisionism of Pravda. Far from being an objective historian, Dilorenzo writes with a huge chip on his shoulder. Slogging through this nausiating diatribe, the reader begins to wonder just what personal slight a man who's been dead for over 130 years could have done to fill the author with such anger. DiLorenzo just can't seem to find anything good to say about Lincoln, or America for that matter. (He and Sean Penn should get together.) The book reads like another one of those consipracy theories. Every little problem we have today is all Lincoln's fault, or so DiLorenzo says, and according to the author, there is plenty of material to back this harebrained claim up. Unfortunatly most of the works he cites are from both far left and far right fringe writers, commentators, and revistionist historians. As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
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