Mises Review
Author:
David Gordon
Online Publish Date:
The Despot Named Lincoln Mises Review 8, No. 2 (Summer 2002) THE REAL LINCOLN: A NEW LOOK AT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS AGENDA, AND AN UNNECESSARY WAR Thomas J. DiLorenzo Forum, 2002, xiii + 333 pgs. Why is The Real Lincoln so much superior to Harry Jaffa’s A New Birth of Freedom ? Jaffa offers a purely textual study: he considers, as if he were