A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Harman Chris

Author:Harman, Chris [Harman, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2008-04-16T22:00:00+00:00

Lincoln is a sui generis [unique] figure in the annals of history. He has no initiative, no idealistic impetus, no historical trappings. He gives his most important utterances the most commonplace form. Other people claim to be ‘fighting for an idea’, when it is a matter for them of fighting for square feet of land. Lincoln, even when he is motivated by an ideal, talks about square feet…Lincoln is not the product of a popular revolution. This…average person of good will was placed at the top by the interplay of the forces of universal suffrage unaware of the great issues at stake. The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its social and political organisation, ordinary people of good will can achieve feats which only the heroes could achieve in the old world.114

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