Review: A YA look at Lincoln
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2013
This short piece gives us a more personal look at President Lincoln than the Spielberg movie (released around the same time), as seen through the eyes of a local 16-year-old girl who hung out at the white house with Mary and the Lincoln kids for about the first year of his presidency. We also get a better sense of the daily lives of regular people and what they were talking and thinking about during the early years of the Civil War. I enjoyed it for its unique perspective.