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<p>A new book-and companion to the Steven Spielberg film-tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery . . . and came to end it.</p><p>Steven Spielberg focused his movie Lincoln on the sixteenth president's tumultuous final months in office, when he pursued a course of action to end the Civil War, reunite the country, and abolish slavery. Invited by the filmmakers to write a special Lincoln book as a companion to the film, Harold Holzer, the distinguished historian and a consultant on the movie, now gives us a fast-paced, exciting new book on Lincoln's life and times, his evolving beliefs about slavery, and how he maneuvered to end it.</p><p>The story starts on January 31, 1865-less than three months before Lincoln's assassination-as the president anxiously awaits word on whether Congress will finally vote to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Although the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier had authorized the army to liberate slaves in Confederate territory, only a Constitutional amendment passed by Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states would end slavery legally everywhere in the country.</p><p>Drawing from letters, speeches, memoirs, and

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Author

Harold Holzer

Publisher

Newmarket Press for It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062265111

Category

history

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Arts

Rating

3.29 / 5 (298 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14