The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Summary and Reviews

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
by Mark E. Neely

The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
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Author: Mark E. Neely
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-08-20
ISBN: 0195080327
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Book Review: Pulitzer material for sure
Summary: 5 Stars

I gobbled up this book, but then, it falls right into my current research topic. Others who found it dull have a point if they are not into this era or the topic, but I loved reading it. I might have given it 4 1/2 stars because occasionally Neely's liberal side sneaks through, as when he deemed the military draft of 1862 an odious event. That's a personal value judgment, not a fact. That it was PERCEIVED by many Northerners as odious, is a fact. But that is a tiny, tiny flaw, and the book is definitely deserving of the Pulitzer it received. (And I suspect those occasional liberal slips were vital to winning the Pulitzer.) Neely's marvelous academic study contradicts with extensively researched facts (the man read 137 rolls of microfilm searching for arrest records) the rantings of the Lincoln-was-a-despot Libertarians such as Thomas DiLorenzo. Not light reading but highly recommended for scholars.

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