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The Lincoln Hypothesis (2000)

by Timothy Ballard(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: I loved reading this book. It was a great book to learn about Lincoln's life and all the trials he went through. I liked how this book connects the gospel and the Book of Mormon with Lincoln's decisions and priorities as President. I've always like reading historical fiction and learning about all of little known details from different time periods. When I read this book, it was a really cool experience for me because it shared a lot of information that I didn't know and hadn't ever thought of. It was also cool to hear that Abraham Lincoln was likely to have read the Book of Mormon. And that he may have been influenced by it and how it is likely that it inspired him to get through the Civil War. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves l... moreearning about history, the Civil War, or Abraham Lincoln. This book is perfect for a person looking for an interesting book that ties history and religion.
review 2: I first heard about this book as a review and I thought it might be interesting, but didn't want to pay for it. Wrong. I saw someone at Church reading this book and asked if I could borrow it. I read about half way though the book and bought my own version of it.The amazing thing about this book is that it's written in a way that I usually hate. This a book that talks about the importantce Book of Mormon, which is alright, but he uses personal experiences to highlight why he thinks it's important, which I usually hate. But it didn't bother me in this book.The basis of the book is that during the darkest part of the Civil War Pres. Lincoln checked out the Book of Mormon from the Library of Congress and kept it for 9 months. There is no way to prove one way or the other that Pres. Lincoln read the book but that's really not what makes this book so interesting. The author makes a great case for Lincoln and the country having a spiritual turn around. His evidence is probably only convincing to Mormons, but that's OK it's fascinating. One of the things that he pointed out is that the American people had a change of heart halfway through the Civil War. At the midway point of the war both Lincoln and Notherners realized that the war really was about freeing the slaves. At the beginning of the war Lincoln was fighting the war to keep the Union together. He knew that he could not get Union soldiers to fight to free slaves at the beginning of the war, but by the middle of the war attitudes had changed and everyone knew that the war was now to right a terrible wrong, or the majority of the Union realized it. Once this was learned the war started to reach it's final conclusion.One of the last chapters in the book the author talks about Wilford Woodruff and the 100 prominent men who came to him from the spirit world and asked why they're work was not done yet. The names that were done were interesting. Not all the US presidents were on the list, but Lincoln was, and Steward his Secretary of State (I think). The man who Lincoln considered indispensable. He also points out another thing. The North should have won the war with all of it's advantages. The South did have some advantages, and one was their generals. They kept the war going long enough for Lincoln and the Union to change their hearts. One of the prominent men on the list Stonwall Jackson, the general that Lee considered to be his indespensible right had, and also a very committed Christian.Very interesting book. I'm glad I read it. In fact it's one of my top five favorite books now. It's that good. less

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