Philadelphia Inquirer – January 31, 2013
On this last day of January in 1865, the House of Representatives passed a proposal for a constitutional ban on slavery. In Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Abraham Lincoln is the consummate politician who, in the midst of a great war and facing determined resistance in Congress, made it happen.
But before we join the “Why can’t President Obama be more like Lincoln?” chorus, it’s worth noting that the 13th Amendment was less a great leap forward than a single conflicted step.
Daniel Day Lewis in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.”