Abe, in history, has been elevated to a god status by many historians. Any human failures of his are embedded in the text and not highlighted by reviews at the back of the book or in reviews in general.
One example is the excellent Six Encounters with Lincoln by Elizabeth Brown Pryor (2017), where she examined six “failures in character or policy direction” of Abraham Lincoln without using such words.
Instead, we have scholarly words like “Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons.”
In chapter 4, her chapter on Native Americans, Pryor concluded, “By almost any measure, the Lincoln administration (1861-65) was catastrophic for Native Americans.” (P 209).
The best treatment of the history of the Native Americans/Indians of the American West is The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens (2016).
At p. 14, Cozzens wrote, “After George Washington, no president lost much sleep over Indian rights.”
The writing is brisk. It is the definitive history of the battles (1860-1890) that destroyed the Indian way of life in America.
LWH, Manila and KL, 1 Feb 26