CSPAN2 Book TV October 22, 2011
freedom. >> but was he a, today -- >> he was not a conservative. >> would he have been a --, a liberal? >> yes. in my sense. >> in your sense? >> not in the corrupted sense of today. >> but what's confusing as you watch today's -- people who embrace him, you have the jefferson-jackson dinners every year for the democratic party. and lincoln is embraced by both sides. what was abraham lincoln? >> he's much more difficult to characterize, because his role in our history had to do with the civil war. and that's not something to be characterized in terms of, of socialist or liberal or --...
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