D'Souza Is A Lincoln Man

The Hoover Institution has made available online Dinesh D'Souza's brief piece discussing recent attacks on the reputation of Abraham Lincoln issuing from both the left and the right. The piece was originally published in American History Magazine.

After dismissing the charges against Lincoln, D'Souza asserts:

In my view, Lincoln was the true “philosophical statesman,” one who was truly good and truly wise. Standing in front of his critics, Lincoln is a colossus, and all of the Lilliputian arrows hurled at him bounce harmlessly to the ground. It is hard to put any other president—not even George Washington—in the same category as Abraham Lincoln. He was simply the greatest practitioner of democratic statesmanship that America and the world have yet produced.

Do tell -- I'm a Washington man, myself, but there is no gainsaying Lincoln's greatness. For a better selection check out James Mcpherson [ed], "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth [U. Ill: 1995] [here] which considers Lincoln from a variety of perspectives or his numerous pieces in the New York Review of Books [here].