Shattering the Truth: The Slandering of Abraham Lincoln - Paperback

by Dennis W. Brandt (Author)

Secession is no longer your ancestor's concept. Demagogues with a yearning to carve the United States into fragments are at work today. Thomas J. DiLorenzo's prolific work attacking the memory of Abraham Lincoln has made him the titular head of a modern I-hate-America separatist movement. Armed with a long and varied list of sources, this third of Dennis W. Brandt's books launches a full-frontal assault on DiLorenzo's lines and point by historical point dissects his Lincolnphobic falsehoods. Readable, factual, and provocative, Brandt conceived Shattering the Truth as a one-stop antidote to those whose path to destroying America begins with slandering Abraham Lincoln.

Author Biography

Dennis W. Brandt is an independent scholar and author. He has researched the Civil War for more than two decades, concentrating on the human aspects of that conflict and the political and social events that led to it. Shattering the Truth is the most recent of three published works. One reviewer called his first book, From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and its Civil War Community (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007), "one of the most interesting and entertaining regimentals that I have encountered in quite some time" (Frank Piatek, Civil War News, Aug. 2007). Brandt's recently-released Pathway to Hell: A Tragedy of the American Civil War (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2008) is a unique and deeply-researched look into one Civil War soldier's struggle against the mental degradation that war so often inflicts upon participants. Brandt has been married to the same good-looking woman for forty years, has a son in the Army Reserves, and is "Pap-Pap" to two bright, lovely grandchildren.