Abraham Lincoln was a Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative - L Seabrook

Illustrated Paperback - 248 pgs -The mainstream version of the American Civil War has always been nonsensical and irrational. Why? Because it was written by Liberals with an extreme anti-South bias and little or no knowledge of the history of America's two party system. For example, if the Confederacy's Democratic leaders were truly "Liberals," as we've been taught, why did they maintain that they were fighting for the Constitution, a document that Liberals have traditionally treated with scorn and derision? And why, if the Union's Republican leaders were truly "Conservatives," as we've also been taught, did they claim to be fighting to force the Southern states back into the Union, a Union our Conservative Founding Fathers purposefully designed to be "voluntary"? In this fascinating one-of-a-kind book, award-winning Civil War scholar, Lochlainn Seabrook, answers these and scores of other related questions in clear and concise language. As the author explains, what the public and even many authorities don't realize is that in the 1860s the platforms of the two main political parties were the reverse of what they are today. In other words, at the time, big government advocate Lincoln and the Republican Party were Liberals, while small government proponent Davis and the Democratic Party were Conservatives. This simple fact transforms the American Civil War from what pro-North writers disingenuously assert was a battle over abolition and slavery, to what it really was.