text: Steven Spielberg’s latest holiday epic is all about the 16th president, with no vampires in sight, thank you very much. Daniel Day Lewis plays the man himself, and the story is all about passing the 13th Amendment.
  Grae Drake talks with the incredible cast, including James Spader, Sally Field, and Joseph Gordon Levitt, about the challenges in bringing this story to life, and what they think audiences can take from watching it.