| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

"First Among Equals": Abraham Lincoln's Reputation during His Administration. By Hans L. Trefousse. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. xvi, 199 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8232-2468-6.)
The name Hans L. Trefousse is well known to all students of the Civil War and Reconstruction. For over fifty years Professor Trefousse has shared his impressive research and scholarly insights about the middle period. One of his most significant contributions has been a revision of the old negative stereotypes about the Radical Republicans. As he has demonstrated so clearly in a number of works, including The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vanguard for Racial Justice (1969), the much-maligned radicals were liberal reformers who strove for racial justice.	1
In "First Among Equals," Trefousse turns a revisionist eye to Abraham Lincoln's administration. There has long been a tendency in Lincoln scholarship to portray the sixteenth president as rather unpopular throughout his term of office, that is, until the assassination converted him into a martyr who was above controversy. According to this view, the president's murder fortuitously erased the memory of just how controversial he had been. However, as Trefousse clearly demonstrates, while Southerners and Copperheads may have despised the president, that was certainly not the case with most Northerners.	. . .

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