The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark Neely, Jr.
Just picked this up at the library but am not enthused by the introduction....
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The tedious historical debat over whether or not President Lincoln's policies were constitutional is a legacy of the brittle party platforms of a bygone era and the constitutional moralizing of sore losers .....
Rather than continue the fruitless debate over the constitutionality of Lincoln's acts, this book will examine instead the practical impact on civil liberties of the policies Lincoln developed to save the union.
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I'll see how much of a 'ends justifies the means' approach this book has....