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Abraham Lincoln, Mensch

J. Hoberman reviews the new Spielberg flick, ‘Lincoln’

by
The Editors
November 09, 2012
(Library of Congress)
(Library of Congress)

“As imagined by Spielberg and Kushner, Lincoln’s Lincoln is the ultimate mensch,” film critic J. Hoberman writes of Steven Spielberg’s new Civil War biopic.

Written by Tony Kushner and starring Daniel-Day Lewis as the larger-than-life president, the film reframes the Lincoln narrative as one similar to Exodus, with Lincoln as the emancipator who himself could not enter the promised land. Read the review here.

From the editors of Tablet Magazine.