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    Abraham Lincoln's Lie

    By Scott Haworth

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    A note for conservative readers: Don't read this book.  It's just going to make you mad, and I don't want to make you mad.  I'm a pretty nice guy.  I just wanted to write a silly story to make my liberal friends laugh.  The plot is outlandish, and it's filled with exaggerated stereotypes and crazy descriptions of conservatives that have no basis in reality.  It was not designed to be accurate or to be taken seriously.  Life's too short to get all worked up over this ridiculous book.  If you're a conservative, I implore you to skip this and go read something you'll actually like.  Or turn on the TV and watch a rerun of Seinfeld.  Everybody likes Seinfeld, right?

    From the author of the popular Dark Moonlighting series:

    Abraham Lincoln once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Senator Nick Bennett believes that it should not stand. Disgusted with partisan politics, Nick calls for America to be split up by political ideology. The idea of living in separate utopias is wildly popular with Americans. The blue states form the Progressive States of America and the red states create the United States of Ronald Reagan. The two new governments are free to address foreign relations, economic policies and social laws without the interference of an opposition party.

    While the P.S.A. thrives, the U.S.R.R. is crippled by the inanity of its conservative ideology. A generation of its citizens receives a terrible education and loses the right to privacy. Many are killed either by an abhorrent health care system or the preemptive wars their government starts. The dreadful conditions inside the U.S.R.R. enrage the conservative citizens. Revolution seems inevitable, and the conflict threatens to engulf the liberal country as well.

    Abraham Lincoln's Lie contains political and social satire and is intended for a liberal audience.  The novel takes a humorous look at how fiercely debated ideas could actually be implemented by the two ideologies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Haworth
    Release dateMar 3, 2013
    ISBN9781498966313
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    Abraham Lincoln's Lie
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    Scott Haworth

    Scott was born in the wagon of a traveling show. His Momma used to dance for the money they'd throw. Pappa would do whatever he could... Well, not really. That would have been a lot more interesting though. He was actually born in the suburbs of Cleveland. After existing for several more decades, Scott graduated from college in 2004 with a degree in history and political science. Six months later he decided he wanted to be a writer, which made the degree largely worthless. Oops. Scott has written many novels in genres ranging from science fiction to political satire. He tried combining the two genres once, but he didn't think anyone would be interested in a sex scandal involving the President of Blargon 7. When not writing, he enjoys being asleep.  

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    • 3/5
      Abraham Lincoln's Lie examines what might happen if liberals and conservatives were to decide, peacefully, to abandon the sixteenth president's highest ideal -- of preserving the political unity of America against the forces of regional and ideological divisiveness -- and go their separate ways. A neophyte U.S. senator in frustration calls for it and is surprised that nearly everyone agrees and swiftly moves forward. This is an intriguing idea, fertile with opportunities for social commentary, but the narrative is too bare-bones and often stereotypical to be fully satisfying. The handful of key characters whose lives are followed, sketchily, over forty years beg to be fleshed out. Some of the time sequences are telescoped down to where they are implausible.Conservatives will likely be offended as they read (they are so easily offended by anything). Liberals will gloat. The ending is melodramatic but leaves me wondering why the prospering liberal nation would reverse itself on wanting to return to the status quo ante. It's like second-guessing a bitter divorce. The novel has great potential. It could be crafted into a provocative tale and, as is, is a pleasant read.
    • 4/5
      Faced with neverending DC political gridlock, it is easy to daydream what life would be like if only your political side could break through and finally accomplish everything on their agenda. Texan Nick Bennett, named to fill out the term of a vacant Senate seat, while delivering a rote speech in the battle of ideologies on the Senate floor, has an epiphany. Breaking from his prepared remarks, he posits that Lincoln was wrong -- the Civil War which kept the Country united did not save it, but plunged it into its present state of gridlock and inactivity. This musing quickly gathers steam and adherents. In back room wrangling, the politicos quickly divide up the country along blue state (Progressive States of America) and red state (United States of Ronald Reagan.) Thus, the liberals and conservatives are freed to pursue their agendas unhindered. This fast paced read brings these daydreams to fruition. As other commenters have noted, this book will appeal to liberals far more than conservatives. It is interesting to see how this author has imagined the future if these policies are allowed to run rampant. The satire can get rather heavy handed, but I didn't mind so much as it played to my own biases.
    • 5/5
      As the book description states, this is a fun book if you're a liberal; probably not so enjoyable if you're aren't. However, the author brings up some interesting scenarios of what it would be like if the USA split into two countries - the "red states" and the "blue states." The blue states, called the Progressive States of America, or PSA, took up a government based on progressive causes - same-sex marriages, legalized marijuana, right-to-die laws, enhanced science and research and so on, while the United States of Ronald Reagan, or USSR, outlawed abortion, gun control, education became based on the bible, labor rights and unions were abolished, etc.One flaw in the story is that there was no middle-ground. You had to choose which side you were on - the far-left or the far-right. Of course, most people fall somewhere in the middle, though we do tend to lean towards one ideology or the other. In any case, it was a fun book to read. What if both sides could pursue their agendas without any political opposition? What would it be like in five, ten, twenty or forty years later?The book could have benefited from a bit of editing, especially in the last 25% or so. But it was a relatively minor flaw - overall, it was well-written and held my attention though the end (which was a little bit creepy, but you'll have to read the book to find out why!)I won a copy of this book through LibraryThing in exchange for agreeing to write a fair and unbiased review. I have never met the author.
    • 5/5
      This book shows what might happen if the red states and blue states went their seperate ways. The outlandish plot obviously isn't supposed to be taken seriously. It's a fun read for liberals, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it to any of my conservative friends or family.
    • 4/5
      There are two reasons why I want to speak highly of this book, and it’s fair to tell a reader of them. First, this book has a strong political slant, and it turns out that I largely share the author’s views. More-over, his sort of moderate-liberal-progressive outlook, in my opinion, shows up too infrequently in political fiction specifically written to make a point, and I admit up front to wishing to encourage him.Second, this is the first review I have written for a self-published complete stranger since I myself became a self-published author reviewed by complete strangers. I recognize how important reviews are and what an accomplishment it is to produce a coherent novel, much less one with only two typos. I am inclined to be gentle.That being said …..This is a novel that covers about a forty year span after the USA breaks in two to form a red nation and a blue nation. The author wisely glosses over details, but focuses instead on following a few key families in each of the new countries. It’s a good format and he develops some compelling characters and covers issues from foreign policy to gun control.The biggest problem with the book is that it can’t quite decide if it wants to be realistic, or satire. The smaller satire parts work well, like the number of things in the red nation named after Ronald Reagan and the conservative states getting corporate sponsors for their aircraft carriers. Funny stuff, although I personally would appreciate the humor more if some of the satire went both ways. Let’s face it, there is plenty to laugh about throughout the political spectrum.At the other extreme, the human drama that is not satire works well also, such as the story of the two gay men who find their home is in the red nation, and are forced to flee to the blue with their adopted daughter. To me this was the most emotionally compelling story line and these were the most fully drawn of all the characters.It’s the stuff in between the satire and realism that gave me pause. The blue states gradually turn into utopia, while having no problems with debt or high taxes. They get along famously with other countries, and somehow encourage innovation among the citizenry in spite of more government controls. Lazy or greedy people do not play a role, a fact that I find very hard to believe. In fact, after forty years the place is so perfect that I briefly thought I might have fallen into conservation satire that had been waiting to reveal itself.Meanwhile, the red nation fares far worse. Citizens roam the countryside with legal automatic weapons. Criminals are tried and executed within days, with no appeals. Sex education has been abolished and science is barely taught. The nation is plagued with teen births, ignorant angry people and wars it cannot afford. Absolutely nothing works better here. As satire, one can do this of course. As a realistic novel, I’d have been more engaged if the red nation produced some sympathetic characters and occasional unique solutions of its own. In the real world, there are truly good people across the political spectrum. I know, I am related to many of them. Furthermore, real politics is a messy nuanced business and there are surprises.Two things to this author’s defense. His main protagonist is the conservative politician who causes the split to begin with, and he does infuse this one character with warmth and humanity (and of course with mounds of regret for what he has done). Secondly, I skimmed through a little Ayn Rand before writing this review. I have not read her in decades and wondered in retrospect how balanced her world in Atlas Shrugged really was. Not very, so this author is at least in renowned company. Unfortunately, at this point his writing lacks the plot intricacy and the suspense that Ayn showed in her two most famous novels. We aren’t compelled to find out how this book is going to end, but rather have a pretty good idea much of the way through it. His character’s motivations are sometimes unclear and their emotions sometimes range significantly from one sentence to the next. Author Scott Haworth also shows no skill at all in folding in either romance or sex, both of which do add to a book’s wider appeal. Lacking all this, his one-sidedness is more apparent than Ayn’s and will likely be more irritating to any reader that does not more or less agree with him already.However, Ayn did write a first novel, called “Anthem”, and years ago I read it. I’m not going to bother to reread it now just for this review, but I remember it as a short, shrill and simplistic treatise in which she outlines ideas that she would later convey with far more power. I am a much more critical reader these days, and I feel certain that “Abraham Lincoln’s Lie” is a better first book than “Anthem.”I wavered between giving “Abraham Lincoln’s Lie” 3.5 stars or 4. I am rounding up in hopes that this is the first of several novels we will see from Scott Haworth, and that one day soon his skills will grow enough to be able to powerfully convey the fictionally underrepresented ideal of a freedom-loving progressive nation. I am really looking forward to reading those future works.
    • 4/5
      Definitely an interesting political satire exploring the what-if’s of splitting the country by Conservative and Liberal parties. I found myself intriqued as the pages flew by. I have often wondered what would happen if the country SPLIT. Give this book a try, you might like it. I received this book from Library Thing to read and review.