Tom DiLorenzo mentions Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War, which is an excellent read. In fact, look at the Amazon editorial review and find this quote: “There has undoubtedly been written about him more romantic and sentimental rubbish than about any other American figure, with the possible exception of Edgar Allan Poe; and there are moments when one is tempted to feel that the cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth has been to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.”

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