Vindicating Lincoln - 9780742559738

"Thomas L. Krannawitter argues that if Lincoln is not great, then no politician is, and without great politicians we sink into the deep funk of cynicism, throwing up our hands at the political process while despots take charge."---The American Spectator

"Krannawitter is offering the first detailed and single-minded defense of Lincoln in the twenty-first century....[He] has a clear understanding of the issues, and fulfills his goal of showing how Lincoln's lessons are relevant to contemporary America."---Americas Civil War

"One by one, in his nine chapters, Krannawitter patiently---and sometimes hilariously---disassembles the myths of Lincoln-the-tyrant, Lincoln-the-racist, and Lincoln-the-betrayer, and once more restores the epic gleam of Lincoln the defender of natural right, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Union."---Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College, Claremont Review of Books

"With literate frankness, emphatic argumentation, and an abundance of sophisticated knowledge about Lincoln and his times, Krannawitter offers a brave, refreshing, counter-revisionist assessment of our occasionally maligned and misunderstood sixteenth president. This book reminds us anew of why Lincoln was indeed great, and why so many of the recent books about him are not! Krannawitter has made a bracing, persuasive, and uplifting contribution to the literature."---Harold Holzer, cocbairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission