the spadework for the 13th Amendment…

Movie review:

Lincoln

2012, PG-13, 150 minutes

The movie Lincoln is about Lincoln, and we don’t need to spell out his name. Daniel Day-Lewis gives a performance as the Great Emancipator that rings true on both the good side and the not so good side. Sally Field rather woodenly plays the role of Mrs. Lincoln, or, as she preferred, “Mrs. President.”

Lincoln was a politician—we tend to forget that. The subplot of the movie is the horse trading and the not-so-savory vote buying that went on in the runup to the successful vote on the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery. Lincoln’s right-hand men did what he asked them to do and what they knew he wanted them to do—and Lincoln finally did a bit of the spadework himself.

Lincoln is not a spectacular movie. It’s dark in many ways. It is profoundly historical, and the drama keeps peeking through the windows.

One bag of potato chips is enough.

By the way, Lincoln was born in 1809, when it wasn’t widely popular to give babies a middle name.

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Book review:

John Eliot: “Apostle to the Indians”

…a righteous man of his times

by Ola Elizabeth Winslow

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