Lerone Bennett Jr. is not a fan of Abraham Lincoln, and he makes his case against the 16th President of the United . Bennett's point of view is at odds with most Lincoln biographers
Bennett's point of view is at odds with most Lincoln biographers.
It criticizes United States President Abraham Lincoln and claims that his reputation as the "Great Emancipator" during the American Civil War is undeserved.
His 2000 book, Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, questions Abraham Lincoln's .
His 2000 book, Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, questions Abraham Lincoln's role as the "Great Emancipator". Barr, John M. "Holding Up a Flawed Mirror to the American Soul: Abraham Lincoln in the Writings of Lerone Bennett J. Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association]] 3. (2014): 43-65. Lerone Bennett, J. A Life in Popular Black History. The Black Scholar 4. (2017): 3-17.
Lerone Bennett does not mention Jaffa in his outstanding new book, but the entire volume massively refutes his position. As Bennett abundantly shows, Lincoln cared little for blacks and wished them to leave the United States. This surprising contention must face an obvious objection
Lerone Bennett does not mention Jaffa in his outstanding new book, but the entire volume massively refutes his position. This surprising contention must face an obvious objection. Did not Lincoln repeatedly declare that the Declaration, and particularly the document's equality clause, was his most basic political principle?
We believe what we want to believe. We want to believe what grinds our ownaxe the best.
We believe what we want to believe.
Author Ed Steers, who has written about Lincoln topics for many years, examines Lerone Bennett's controversial new book
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Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves .
In this event, Lerone Bennett, Jr. talks about his book "Forced Into Glory" .
In this event, Lerone Bennett, Jr. talks about his book "Forced Into Glory" and a panel of three scholars-Harold Holzer, William Strickland, and Eric Foner . In his book and talk, Mr. Bennett asserts that President Lincoln was not the "Great Emancipator. Rather, he believed African-Americans were inferior to whites and favored deporting them. Mr. Bennett contends that President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation unwillingly and that it was an ineffective document.
The first book I read on the real Lincoln was written by Lerone Bennett, J. entitled Forced Into Glory: Abraham . I was a child in whitest Mississippi, reading for my life, when I discovered that everything I had been told about Abraham Lincoln was a lie. entitled Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream. Lerone Bennett, Jr. (born 17 October 1928) is an African-American scholar, author and social historian, known for his revisionist analysis of race relations in the United States. I was a child in whitest Mississippi, reading for my life, when I discovered that everything I had been told about Abraham Lincoln was a li. .for I discovered that I lived in an Orwellian world where scholars with all the degrees the schools could give could say in all seriousness that a separatist was an integrationist and that a White supremacist was.