Synopsis
Brian Walden contends that the civil-war president did not, as is popularly believed, devote his life to a fight to abolish slavery. By present-day standards, says Walden, Abraham Lincoln would be regarded as a racist whose order to release the slaves in Confederate states was in reality a politically expedient move with the aim of preserving the Union. Walden says that Lincoln's claims to be a hero lie instead in his qualities of wisdom, courage, tolerance and compassion.
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