Forced into gory Lincoln revisionism

From: Human Events | Date: December 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, by Lerone Bennett, Jr. (New York: Johnson Publishing Company, 2000), 652 pages, $35 (cloth).

Lerone Bennett, Jr. published an article in the February 1968 issue of Ebony magazine that posed the question: "Was Abe Lincoln a White Supremacist?" He answered in the affirmative. Thirty-two years later, Ebony's executive editor has expanded his six-page critique into a book of more than 600-pages. As the new title suggests, Bennett believes Lincoln was "forced into glory" against his personal and political wishes by "the real emancipators," black ...

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