WOW...WOW....MY OH MY......WHAT A SHOCK!!
I HAVE MANY TEACHING COURSES FROM "THE TEACHING COMPANY" ..... WWW.THEGREATCOURSES.COM
ONE I GOT SOME MONTHS AGO IS CALLED "THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN".
IT IS LECTURES BY ALLEN GUELZO PhD. JUST LISTENED TO IT.
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HE IS ACCORDING TO HIS CREDINTIALS PROBABLY THE FORMOST EXPERT ON THE HISTORY AND LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HIS AWARDS ARE MANY.
HE IS A MOST INTERESTING SPEAKER .... MAKING A HALF HOUR EACH LECTURE SEEM LIKE 15 MINUTES. HE IS SUCH A MASTER OF HIS SPECIALTY HE USES JUST ABOUT NO NOTES AT ALL......IT IS ALL IN HIS HEAD, INCLUDING QUOTES FROM THIS PERFSON AND THAT PERSON. CERTAINLY A MASTER IN HIS CRAFT.
I'VE BEEN TO WASHINGTON, SEEN THE MASSIVE STATURE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN SITTING ON HIS CHAIR.
MOST PEOPLE [UNLESS YOU'VE STUDIED IN DETAIL ABOUT THE MAN] THINK OF LINCOLN AS THIS MIGHTY MAN WHO WAS FAMOUS FOR HIS STAND AGAINST SLAVERY, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA CIVIL WAR YEARS.
HE HAS BECOME TO MANY LARGER THAN LIFE.......A KIND OF GREEK GOD OF AMERICAN HISTORY. SOME CLAIMING HIM AS THE GREATEST MAN OF THE 19TH CENTURY, AS WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS THE GREATEST MAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
BUT AFTER LISTENING TO THE IN-DEPTH LECTURES BY PROFESSOR GUELZO YOU GET A PICTURE OF LINCOLN THAT BLOWS AWAY THE MYTHICAL MYTH OF THIS MAN.
HE WAS IN MANY MANY WAYS AS FAR DIFFERENT FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL AS NIGHT IS FROM DAY.
THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY AND LINCOLN WILL SHOCK AND SURPRISE YOU. YES HE DID FINALLY VIGUROUSLY OPPOSE IT, BUT THERE IS THE "REST OF THE STORY" AS THE LATE PAUL HARVEY [RADIO SHOW] WOULD SAY, ABOUT LINCOLN AND SLAVERY.....THAT IS A SHOCKER, SORRY TO SAY NOT FLATERING AT ALL.
THE TRUE LINCOLN OVER ALL HIS LIFE IS A SURPRISE AND SOMEWHAT OF A SHOCK, IF YOU HAVE NOT STUDIED HIS LIFE IN-DEPTH.
THE GREATEST SHOCK AND DISAPPOINTMENT TO ME WAS THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN, THOUGH RAISED IN A CALVANIST CHRISTIAN HOME. HE REJECTED HIS PARENTS RELIGION. BUT WORSE STILL, HE MADE FUN OF IT AS HE BECAME AN ADULT. THEN EVEN WORSE THAN THAT HE WOULD OFTEN IN PUBLIC READ A SECTION OF THE BIBLE, THEN RIDICULE IT, AND USING ATHIEST LOGIC SET ABOUT TRYING TO TEAR IT APART FROM AN ATHIEST LOGIC POINT OF VIEW.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAS BEEN MADE OUT TO BE SOME GIANT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. BUT THE TRUE FACTS ARE HE WAS AS STRANGE A PERSON AS WAS HIS LOOKS.
SO IF YOU WANT THE TRUE PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE TIMES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AS WELL AS THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER ABOUT THE PERSON ON LINCOLN HIMSELF; YOU NEED TO OBTAIN THESE LECTURES BY PROFESSOR GUELZO FROM .... WWW.THEGREATCOURSE.COM
FROM "THE TEACHING COMPANY."
VERY ENLIGHTENING, SHOCKING, AND EDUCATIONAL INDEED.
ESPECIALLY SO IN THE TRUTH ABOUT SLAVERY BEFORE AND UP TO THE USA CIVIL WAR.
AND THEN REMEMBER THE SHAMEFUL TRUTH THAT AFTER SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED IN THE USA, IT STILL TOOK OVER 100 YEARS FOR RACISM [OFTEN BRUTAL - LITERALLY] TO DIE ITS DEATH.
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