Daniel Day-Lewis stars as President Abraham Lincoln in director Steven Spielberg's drama "Lincoln." | AP Photo/Disney-DreamWorks II
Daniel Day-Lewis (middle), as President Abraham Lincoln, looks across a battlefield in the aftermath of a terrible siege in this scene from "Lincoln." | AP Photo/DreamWorks/ Twentieth Century Fox
I’ve rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. He had less than a year of formal education and taught himself through his hungry reading of great …
