Unwritten History Lincoln A Dark & Dangerous Vision , livre audio
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2022
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Date de parution
28 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781667964089
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
166 Mo
It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln, who became America’s 16th President in 1860, was a Melungeon; a person of European, African-American and Native American ancestry.
But beyond even that thoughtful historical proposition the late scholar Lerone Bennet Jr. sees America's most beloved president in a very different light to how he has been portrayed throughout time. Bennet hit a nerve in his research and writing on Lincoln. His book, 'Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream', questions Lincoln's role as the "Great Emancipator". The work was described by one reviewer as a "flawed mirror." It was further criticized by historians of the Civil War period as faulty.
In his introduction, Bennett wrote:
"The idea of the book is simple: Everything you think you know about Lincoln and race is wrong. Every schoolchild, for example, knows the story of "the great emancipator" who freed Negroes with a stroke of the pen out of the goodness of his heart. The real Lincoln ... was a conservative politician who said repeatedly that he believed in white supremacy. Not only that: He opposed the basic principle of the Emancipation Proclamation until his death and was literally forced – Count Adam Gurowski said he was literally whipped – "into the glory of having issued the Emancipation Proclamation," which Lincoln drafted in such a way that it did not in and of itself free a single slave."
Bennett's critics, including historians as well as political scientists, believe he ignores Lincoln's political and moral growth during the course
Publié par
Date de parution
28 mars 2022
EAN13
9781667964089
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
166 Mo
