Other contradictions filled his life, she said. “You see a man who’s contradictory about whether he’s going to go for emancipation, or just is going to go for union,” Goodwin said. One key part (which Steven Spielberg’s used for his 2012 “Lincoln” movie) was the complexity of freeing the slaves. She spent a decade writing her 2005 Lincoln book. “There’s nothing bigger … than the Moby Dick of American history, which is Abraham Lincoln,” said historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose Lincoln documentary debuts on Presidents Day weekend (8 p.m. He lost four political races … then won the presidency and changed the nation.
He was a sad man who made people laugh, a rough-hewn rail-splitter who preferred to be inside with a book. Abraham Lincoln was a towering enigma, a sturdy pillar of conflicts and contrasts.
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