Lincoln the Man

by Edgar Lee Masters (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0962384264

ISBN-10: 0962384267

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A lost classic rediscovered and expanded, with a new introduction, new photographs, and other new materials. Written in 1931 by one of America's most highly respected poets and scholars, this book has been hidden away for over 50 years. From the beautifully written text of this lost book, the true causes of the War Between the States emerge more clearly than ever before. Written by Edgar Lee Masters, the famous author of Spoon River Anthology (who was a native of Illinois), the scholarship in this book was able to withstand the most vicious attacks. In fact, as you will learn from the new introduction, the U.S. Congress actually attempted to ban Lincoln The Man, which was offered to the public only once in a brief first edition. Now the Foundation for American Education has produced a new edition of Lincoln The Man for the first time in over half a century, with a new introduction that puts it all into perspective. Lincoln The Man is both a collector’s item and a book that must be read by anyone who wants to understand the causes of the War and the true nature of Lincoln’s legacy (as well as by readers who admire the unique literary gifts of Edgar Lee Masters). Included in this new edition is a collection of rare photographs and the text of reviews not published since the 1930s, by H.L. Mencken, Andrew Nelson Lytle, and others. “Seldom have I read so brilliant a picture of the decay of the old American spirit.... The writing here is so eloquent as to be genuinely moving.... The American people, North and South, went into the war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects.... And what they thus lost they have never got back.” --H.L. Mencken “An intensely interesting, arresting, challenging, book....” --Claude Bowers “...the Lincoln myth is definitely a bad myth, and Mr. Masters deserves credit for shattering it...” --Andrew Nelson Lytle

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Hardcover: 498 pages
Publisher: The Foundation for American Education (December 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0962384267
ISBN-13: 978-0962384264
Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 9 customer reviews
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Jackson Lamb

Absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to understand the true origins of the American Civil War.

March 24, 2015

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The book is a diatribe, of course - but entertaining by virtue of its over-the-top nature.

The author performs yeoman work in providing a long-overdue rehabilitation of Stephen A. Douglas; a nuanced and insightful history of the U.S. Constitution and the original intent of its Framers; a detailed account of the origins of slavery in the United States and the reason it couldn't be instantly disestablished by the Framers; the shocking revelation that the Dredd Scott matter was in fact a moot case brought about by opponents of slavery on both the plaintiff and defense sides; a detailed explanation of why secession was in fact legal; a thorough debunking of the legitimacy of Union aggression against the South; and, finally, insight into the muddled motives and sloppy thinking of the secular saint, Abraham Lincoln.

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snakeriverhombre

I highly recommend this book to any one who really wants to ...

July 24, 2017

Format: Hardcover

I highly recommend this book to any one who really wants to better know the man, as oppossed to the myth which is more or less shoved down one's throat here, from all directions.

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J. Price

Deeply Flawed Individual

August 24, 2011

Format: Hardcover

I read this book several years ago, and found nothing in it to refute a long-held conviction that Lincoln was a tyrant, and a crafty one at that. One of the book's major strengths centers round the fact that it delves deeply into often obscure details of Lincoln's early life and training by presenting written and verbal testimony from individuals who grew up with him or worked with him in the legal profession in Springfield. Almost without exception, Lincoln's personal friends and professional colleagues saw him as a deeply flawed individual, who would not hesitate using sophisticated forms of dishonesty and deception to accomplish a desired goal. One writer made the observation that among his contemporaries, Lincoln became known as "Honest Abe" for the same reason the tallest man in a group is often referred to as "Shorty" or the largest as "Tiny".

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C. Krik

A Contrarian Perspective

January 30, 2009

Format: Hardcover

I read an older edition of this book, perhaps the first edition if the blurb on this site is correct. I agree with one reviewer who found the incessant and overdetermined animus of Masters a little much to take. However, this book is best read, not as simply objective history, but as a legal brief for the prosecution of Lincoln for crimes of war and, to a lesser extent, of peace. It is not history, but counter-history, and as such it is valuable precisely because so many of us are inclined to dismiss his criticisms out of hand.

One note. Masters is not an ideologist of the "Lost Cause" persuasion, and he certainly was not a romantic of any variety. Although known primarily as a poet (and, indeed, one of America's greatest), his training was in law. This training taught him to see with a cynic's eyes the sophistry and rhetorical obfuscation that often passes for politics; he judged Lincoln as he would have judged any lawyer on the make who argues death and injustice with demagogic piety and sophistic intent. However, I think he falls prey to the tendency to view the assassinated president as a less ambiguous man than he truly was, which is not to say that Lincoln was innocent of the crimes Masters charges him with. And to charge Lincoln with defending oligarchic interests in the North (such as the railroads and the tariff system), while not necessarily inappropriate or even inaccurate, ignores evidence that his counterpart in the Confederacy acted on behalf of similar interests in the South (see, for instance, "Bitterly Divided" by David Williams). War always has a tendency to create tyrants out of any but the best statesmen, which is why the argument over which side actually started the conflict is (still) so contested--because after hostilities were initiated it was of military necessity that great powers would be assumed or asserted by the executives of both federations. Thus it is the scope of Lincoln's ambition which would really convict him--to know whether he had, all along, sought to provoke a smoldering conflict into war in order to fulfill a quest for power unmitigated by higher purpose. This is rather more difficult to determine, but Masters goes further than most in making the case that yes, he did.

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