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This book measures Lincoln solely against his violations of the Bill of Rights and States Rights during wartime. Nothing of the larger political context in which Abraham Lincoln was maneuvering to save the United States from foreign banking control is touched upon in Dilorenzo's superficial analysis. Dilorenzo vastly oversimplifies Lincoln's motivations for organizing a war by reducing his motivations to Lincoln's desire to destroy states' rights and centralize Federal power. Dilorenzo ignores the larger political context that was causing Lincoln to consolidate power and put the United States on a war footing. The rulers of England and France (the central banks) were sending armies to Canada and Mexico -- armies that were poised to deliver a finishing blow to the United States, after it had been bled financially and military in Civil War. England and France were planning to take control of the United States as they had tried to do in 1812.. England and France wanted to smash the United States to destroy its burgeoning economic growth and competition for foreign markets. Lincoln KNEW what the Banks of England and France were planning -- and began taking measures to counter the coming war. Dilorenzo does not explore the reasons for Lincoln's inability to get defense loans at reasonable rates (instead of twenty percent interest) from Wall Street Bankers. Lincoln was forced to consider other financing options (greenbacks). Dilorenzo ignores that more than states rights are at play in the war between Lincoln and Jefferson Davis/Judah Benjamin. Alexander II knew that more was at stake than an internal US matter. That is why Alexander II of Russia sent warships to New York and San Francisco and put them under Lincoln's command. Alexander II de facto was warning England and France that should their armies invade the US, Russia was entering the war -- on the side of the US. The traitorous role as a British agent played by Judah Benjamin, who was the South's Secretary of War and Secretary of State, is not explored in this book. After the South was defeated, Judah Benjamin fled to London (along with the South's gold) -- and was given the post of the "Queen's Counsel" in 1872 in the House of Lords. Surely Lincoln was aware of Judah Benjamin's affiliations -- after all, Judah Benjamin was involved in financing the Central Illinois Railroad, when Lincoln was a state representative and lawyer in Illinois. Lincoln was murdered for his effrontery in outwitting the Criminal Banking Elite in London and Paris. The Criminals responded, as they usually do: They sent assassins to murder Lincoln and his political allies. They sent assassins to "behead" the US Government. John Wilkes Booth murdered Lincoln; another assassin stabbed Secretary of State William Seward (who survived); the murder plots against vice-president Andrew Johnson and General US Grant failed. Public consensus was that Jefferson Davis and Judah Benjamin masterminded the assassination plots. Because of this larger, extremely aggressive political context, Lincoln swept aside the issues of preserving states' rights and the Bill of Rights. Neither states rights nor the Bill of Rights would have survived a successful British-French pincer invasion. Google: Judah Benjamin, August Belmont (Schonberg), Rothschild