THE WORDS that make up the script that tell the story of the 16th president’s efforts to get the 13th Amendment through the House evolve into a densely rich historical drama. The process at the heart of how history happened and the path provided to make it possible are subsequently spun into a riveting story [...]
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Daniel Day Lewis Is Lincoln
THE FILM will be out on November 7th. Mr. Lewis was first spied eating lunch in Richmond, VA., very much in character, which is his usual tactic when working on a film. Unlike most actors, Lewis takes fewer films and immerses himself in them when he does. Steven Spielberg is producing, with more teasers on [...]
’1776′ John Adams: One Useless Man is Called a Disgrace; Two are Called a Law Firm; Three or More Become a Congress
… Lincoln saw an unresolvable tension between the Constitution of a democratic republic and the policies of aggrandizement and intemperate self-interest that lead from the manners of freedom to the slavish love of power. He spoke of the difference between the work of establishing a constitutional republic and the longer task of maintaining it. But [...]
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