The trailer...I will see this movie!

[Rob Wick]

Roger.

That's a distinct possibility. If one didn't know the story, they very well could see the passage as the final act. Of course, when Lincoln explained his reasoning for the passage of the amendment, one hopes that people saw it then as something that had to be ratified.

Excellent point.

I do want to make one clarification to my post. I could have stated it better when I was talking about academicians and Lincoln. I didn't mean to imply that academic historians had strived to make Lincoln into either a saint or a sinner. What I should have said was that their work sometimes forced Lincoln into the two-dimensional because of their insistence that every aspect of his life had to be documented and that myth didn't have a place in telling his story.

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Rob