Episode description

Cue "Battle Hymn of the Republic", it's time for the Lincoln episode. Edward Osborn Professor of US Politics and Political History, host of The Last Best Hope? podcast, and Director of the RAI himself Adam Smith joins to talk Steven Spielberg's monumental 2012 biopic of the 16th president. We talk once again about the historical chameleon himself, Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln the man (versus giant marble statue), congressional politics surrounding the Thirteenth Amendment, historical criticism of the movie, and more! 

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Flashback is graciously supported by the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute

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