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Lincoln (film, 2012) (view source)
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'''''Lincoln''''' is a 2012 film by director [[Steven Spielberg]], starring [[Daniel Day Lewis]] as [[Abraham Lincoln]] during the last for months of his life, focusing on the lame duck session after reelection to his second term as President, in which he achieved the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in the House of Representatives. The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning two including Mr. Day-Lewis's third Oscar for best actor. The screenplay is based in part Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography, Team of Rivals.
==Plot synopsis==
As the Civil War drags to a close, the President's thoughts move to the reconstruction, and the urgent need to replace his Emancipation Proclamation, a war measure, with an amendment definitively freeing the former slaves. Time constraints, and the difficulty of passing the Amendment in the Secession States, and the competing political factions in his party, less him to embark on a risky strategy of secretly summoning Confederate representatives to Washington while simultaneously having his political operatives approach lame duck Democrats with promises of federal positions on return for support in the House for the Thirteenth Amendment.
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==Plot synopsis==
As the Civil War drags to a close, the President's thoughts move to the reconstruction, and the urgent need to replace his Emancipation Proclamation, a war measure, with an amendment definitively freeing the former slaves. Time constraints, and the difficulty of passing the Amendment in the Secession States, and the competing political factions in his party, less him to embark on a risky strategy of secretly summoning Confederate representatives to Washington while simultaneously having his political operatives approach lame duck Democrats with promises of federal positions on return for support in the House for the Thirteenth Amendment.
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