Why didn’t South Carolina think of this in 1861? Oh, that’s right … it had agreed to the federal government’s taking the land upon which it built Fort Sumter.
Never mind.
Day: February 28, 2011
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Debating DiLorenzo: A Lincoln Above Criticism?
To date I’ve discussed several statements made by Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo in a 2008 interview with Brian Lamb on C-SPAN. To me, one of the most interesting characteristics of the interview is that both Lamb and DiLorenzo strayed often from the subject of DiLorenzo on Lincoln and entered the world of DiLorenzo and Lincoln scholarship. Dr. DiLorenzo doesn’t think too much of most Lincoln scholars: he even denies that they are real scholars, with the exception of the late David Herbert Donald. Sometimes he names names, sometimes he does not.
Debating DiLorenzo: The Corrupt Lincoln
In the following passage from an interview on C-SPAN with Brian Lamb, Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo accuses Lincoln of being personally corrupt.
LAMB: In another one of your columns you said, ”Lincoln was personally corrupt as well.”
DILORENZO: Yes. Continue reading
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