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Title: New Heights in Conspiracy Theory
Review: Despite its hype, this book adds nothing to the historiography of Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War. Numerous other negative reviews detail the text's numerous technical inaccuracies, and there is no point covering that ground again. I find it difficult to call this work a history. It contains no new information of consequence, and reflects no meaningful original research. Its conclusions are based on assumptions that are in many cases fallacious, and it advances its "interpretation" by setting up absurd "straw man" cases and then "proving" its point by knocking them down. In consequence, it offers no genuine insight into the period. This work is more in the nature of a neo-conservative rant about "big government" masquerading as a "study" of the civil war era, written to advance an agenda rather than historical understanding.
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