Abraham Lincoln

In a Springfield parlour at dusk, two old neighbors sing “John Brown’s body” softly—and wait for a knock that may send Abraham Lincoln to Washington. When Lincoln arrives, papers spill from his battered hat, but his conviction is plain: “You can’t do the right thing the wrong way.”

It is early 1860, and the question of slavery has brought the country to a dangerous divide. As friends gather in Lincoln’s home to await a delegation, they argue over John Brown’s doomed bid to end slavery by force—and over the principles that should guide the man now being called toward national leadership. Lincoln believes the Constitution must be made an honest master, but the path ahead will test both his restraint and his resolve. What can one man persuade a divided nation to do?

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