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Originally Posted by Hamlet53

DiLorenzo is well known as one of the neo-Confederate Libertarians who believed that the South had the right to exit the Union. He has in the past been affiliated with the League of the South organization.

This is what the Southern Poverty Law Center has had to say about the League of the South and DiLorenzo's involvement in it.

So those books probably do provide an out of the ordinary perspective on Lincoln and his presidency.

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Thanks for the explanation. I've seen this book in stores, but curiously enough, not in the store at Lincoln's boyhood home in Springfield, Illinois. Now I know why.

I have a recommendation of my own: The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War by Thomas Flagel. This book is a collection of all sorts of rankings and descriptions of Civil War-related people, battles, etc. Books like this are necessarily arbitrary and don't provide a "big picture" of the war but I thought the book was fun to dip into without having to read very attentively. cover to cover. It was a steal at $1.99 when I bought the ebook, but now it's back up to $9 something and still an interesting read but not quite the bargain it was.