Author: Landon Covington Bell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780265736685

Excerpt from The Lincoln Myths Are Passing-but Slowly: Bowers' Tragic Era Ames, Ashley, Babcock, Bingham, Blaine, Beast Butler, Cameron, Chandler, Conklin, Garfield, Hayes, Julian, Logan, Morton, Schurz, Sheridan, Sherman, Stanton, Sumner, Wade, Grant and many others, passing in review, appear in sorry plight. Truly the narrative makes many statues in public squares and parks seem a bit grotesque, as the author, in the preface declared it would. The volume deals with the period from 1865 to 1877, from Lincoln's death to the presidency of Hayes, and afterwards - the most tragic in our history. It is an entertaining story Mr. Bowers tells; it holds the interest of the reader, with a firmer grip, from beginning to end, than do his earlier volumes. The book might well have been a great work; indeed, it is a great book, but, unfortunately, with a great defect, from an historical standpoint. Opening with Lincoln's death, the author has chosen to attempt to treat what he terms the Tragic Era as a thing wholly apart from, and in fact unrelated to the preceding years, - a period which we may term the Lincoln Era - the era of the war upon the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.