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Article Excerpt
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. By Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Roseville, CA: Forum/Prima Publishing, 2002. 333 pp.
Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865. By Brian R. Dirck. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. 326 pp.
Judging Lincoln. By Frank J. Williams. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. 202 pp.
Brian Dirck ends his thoughtful study of the competing nationalist visions of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis with a memorable scene involving an encounter between the ex-Confederate president and a former Lincoln associate that took place years after the war had ended. The author notes that Davis pressed his visitor for insight into his old rival's motivations, suggesting that he had "never really understood Abraham Lincoln" (p. 246). The implication is that the reader understands what Davis had missed.
That is the hope of any Lincoln book, but it is an ambition central to these three reexaminations of the legendary president's leadership qualities. Each follows a different approach and reaches a wildly different set of conclusions. While Dirck attempts in almost Goldilocks fashion to get things just right with his impressive but sometimes overly nuanced study, the other two authors...
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