Walter Stahr: How Accurately Did Spielberg Capture Lincoln’s Time?
Walter Stahr is the author of “Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man” and “John Jay.”
I read somewhere, not long before my first book was published, that being a published author would ruin the experience of going to a bookstore. I scoffed, but I soon learned that it was all too true. A bookstore will have no copy of your precious baby. Or it will have one or two copies, buried so deep in the back that nobody will see them. Or the store has a few copies well-placed, but nobody seems to be paying any attention to your book, much less buying it.
I fear that being the author of a new biography on William Henry Seward, a book that deals with the first few months of 1865, similarly ruins the experience of Steven Spielberg’s new movie on Abraham Lincoln, depicting the same months. As I sat in the theater, I found myself at every turn noting minor errors....
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