Wednesday, January 23, 2013

John Blake:

Appeal to people's emotion, not their rationale, when trying to rally public opinion.  Abolitionists had tried to rouse the conscience of Americans for years by appealing to their Christian and Democratic sensibilities.  They largely failed.  But (Harriet Beecher) Stowe's [Uncle Tom's Cabin] did something all those speeches didn't do.  It told a story.

"What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right"

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