| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5 | The History Cooperative

Brian R. Dirck, editor. Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race. Foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 189. $32.00.
The issue of Lincoln's racial attitudes has become a hot topic, both within the historical profession and far beyond it. In this collection of essays, seven historians address the issue in different ways and with extremely mixed results.	1
The editor, Brian R. Dirck, is to be commended for eliciting a broad range of opinions. Indeed, Dirck's own contribution to the book—an essay on the subject of "Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Supreme Court"—is one of the best chapters in the volume. In addition to this, the most successful of the essays include the sensible foreword by Allen C. Guelzo, the excellent chapter by Phillip S. Paludan entitled "Greeley, Colonization, and a 'Deputation of Negroes': Three Considerations on Lincoln and Race," and the interesting account of antislavery politics in Missouri during the Civil War by Dennis K. Boman, entitled "All Politics Are Local: Emancipation in Missouri."	2
Some of the essays could have used additional refinement: Kenneth J. Winkle's "'Paradox Though It May Seem': Lincoln on Antislavery, Race, and Union, 1837–1860" and Michael Vorenberg's "Slavery Reparations in Theory and Practice: Lincoln's Approach" are meritorious in certain respects but disappointing in others.	. . .

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