{"id":375720,"date":"2018-09-01T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lincoln-as-he-really-was\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:00:41","slug":"lincoln-as-he-really-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lincoln-as-he-really-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln as He Really Was"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following is the foreword that I have written for the outstanding new piece of Lincoln scholarship, Lincoln as He Really Was<\/em><\/a>, by Charles T. Pace.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that there are well over 10,000 books in print about Abraham Lincoln it is almost impossible for the average American \u2013 or anyone else \u2013 to know the truth about the real Lincoln.\u00a0 Having given hundreds of public presentations, appeared on dozens of radio talk shows (including the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show), and participated in numerous debates on the subject of Lincoln, I have learned that the average American knows nothing at all about the man except for the few slogans and platitudes that we are all taught in elementary school (and then repeated endlessly in the popular culture).<\/p>\n

As an elementary school student in the Pennsylvania public schools I was taught that Lincoln was so honest that he once walked six miles to return a penny to a merchant who had mistakenly undercharged him.\u00a0 Decades later, when I debated Harry Jaffa who, like the man he called \u201cFather Abraham,\u201d was a student of rhetoric (but not of American history), Jaffa assured the Oakland, California audience of several hundred that Lincoln\u2019s political speeches were in fact \u201cthe words of God.\u201d\u00a0 (This presumably did not include his dirty jokes, for which was famous).
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Abraham Lincoln is the only American president that has literally been deified like a Roman emperor (Like Julius Caesar, his image is the first to be placed on his country\u2019s coinage).\u00a0 Lincoln\u2019s deification eventually spread to the presidency, and then to the entire federal government.\u00a0 The Lincoln myth is thus the ideological cornerstone of the global…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The following is the foreword that I have written for the outstanding new piece of Lincoln scholarship, Lincoln as He Really Was, by Charles T. Pace. Despite the fact that there are well over 10,000 books in print about Abraham Lincoln it is almost impossible for the average American \u2013 or anyone else \u2013 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}