Tracing the Roots of Lincoln's Democratic Vision

The inscription inside the Lincoln Memorial reads, In this Temple As In The Hearts Of The People For Whom He Saved the Union The Memory of Abraham Lincoln Is Enshrined Forever Throughout American history, the images of Washington and Lincoln have been paired as the respective founder and savior of the American experiment. In Forced into Glory (2000), Lerone Bennett Jr. seeks to expose Lincoln as a racist and credits the radical abolitionists as the true heroes of the Civil War In what some call a hoax and others call a ploy not to free African Americans but to keep them in slavery, Lincoln deliberately drafted the Emancipation Proclamation so that it wouldn't free a single slave immediately. . . .