By: Inlitend
Exceptional interview. Mr. Kushner is articulate, thoughtful, and insightful. What an treat to see this.
View ArticleBy: Steve King
Tony Kusher was technically correct in his statement about how long it’s been since a realistic movie about Lincoln has been made. However, I think he might have mentioned a very fine 1988 television...
View ArticleBy: Lynn
This film, Lincoln, should be shown to everyone around the world…free. How did Lincoln finance the Civil War? Please read the book, ‘Web of Debt’ by Ellen Brown. Please listen to the twelve year old,...
View ArticleBy: Nila Haug
Two books for the President to read: Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have James Autry My Utmost for His Highest Oswald Chambers
View ArticleBy: Kevin Iega Jeff
Dear Mr. Moyers, While I love your show and have deep respect for your career achievements, I must share that I am deeply disappointed by your “Lincoln” interview with Tony Kushner. Undoubtedly, the...
View ArticleBy: Not so young anymore either
Not all of us on the left were demonstrating in parks (although I admire those with the courage to risk getting busted heads & blood on their “sexy costumes” by a bashing from a cop). Most of us...
View ArticleBy: Joy Dantine
Mr Toney Kushner is an eloquent speaker; I am very excited to see his work in motion. I look forward to see LINCOLN. I am floored by his comparison of Lincoln and Obama; SPOT ON!
View ArticleBy: Joy Dantine
I have accepted the fact life is not a free ride – even with entitlements of today “we the people” scripted for ourself. I am a worker bee for the sake of Heaven’s nest until I die. Pure and true...
View ArticleBy: Davideros
You either did not watch the complete interview or failed to notice that toward the end this very thing was discussed.
View ArticleBy: Kevin Iega Jeff
Dear Sir – I did watch the entire interview and my view remains the same. The film is a beautiful work of art that does enormous historical damage.
View ArticleBy: patricia White
I like the movie and the interview. I hope to see the movie again . I think it one of the best movies every made. I would like for teachers to encourage their student to see this movie.
View ArticleBy: Hank Gehman
I just saw “Lincoln” and heard Kushner on your show. I loved the movie and I think Kushner is great but watching the movie I don’t understand how Kushner and so many commentators can say the movie is...
View ArticleBy: John Amenta
Great interview. Fascinating, intelligent – engaging. I agree with Tony that a good deal of politics is in the art of compromise, but just as important, it is to know when not to compromise. Lincoln...
View ArticleBy: Heather Mash
When special interests or Corporations take over individuals rights in governance we as citizens suffer. Thanks for this insight and information now what can we do to take back our government from...
View ArticleBy: Heather Mash
I respectfully disagree with you about President Obama. President Obama has the greater good of the nation and it’s people in everything he has done and everything tries to do. I suspect no one is like...
View ArticleBy: Toni B.
Douglass met with Lincoln on several occasions as the discussion surrounding the 13th amendment escalated.
View ArticleBy: Lauren Steiner
I enjoyed the interview and appreciated learning about what went into the film I just saw. But I have to say that I do not share Mr. Kushner’s benevolent view of Obama. If climate change is his main...
View ArticleBy: Francoise Arouete
The universal problem with such fact/fiction popularized ‘histories’ is that we will now hear many people littering the intellectual landscape by quoting both the Lincolns verbatim for what they did...
View ArticleBy: Francoise Arouete
What We Can Learn from Lincoln? Asked but not answered! What Lincoln taught us about compromise is that there is line in the historical sand, drawn by human dignity, over which democracy may not cross...
View ArticleBy: Kathy
I enjoyed the movie more as theater than history and am relieved to read so many comments critical of Kushner’s strained parallel between Lincoln and Obama. However, this quote from the interview...
View ArticleBy: Ellison Horne
Yes indeed, please post a bibliography. It’s helpful to those who are reading this thread as well. I’m concerned that Moyers’ interview with Kushner is so flimsy. There is not one word about Lincoln’s...
View ArticleBy: Ellison Horne
If this film is to ever be shown to everyone, free, around the world, it should also include material that supports conversation about racism. I’m concerned that Moyers’ interview with Kushner is so...
View ArticleBy: Zephyr Johnson
Yes they did meet. Do you know a Donna Koontz that worked as a mammography tech?
View ArticleBy: Zephyr Johnson
We all must read books and not depend on the movies to get the story right.
View ArticleBy: VicP
The movie was so good that I found it challenging to find the “worst” scene in the movie. It’s amazing how much of FDR is Lincoln since both faced an immense war that redefined the world.
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
Mr. Moyers politely called that fellow “out on carpet” and grinned at that fellow’s (Mr. Kushner) stupid answers. Yes, racism has many levels and layers within each level. How about that black gorilla...
View ArticleBy: Kevin Iega Jeff
As one who reads extensively, I should also point out that while I share your belief in reading, what’s written and confirmed as historically accurate often isn’t so. Many celebrated authors have...
View ArticleBy: Keith Pritsker
Dear Mr. Kushner: Last month PBS broadcast an episode of Moyers and Co. in which Bill Moyers interviewed you regarding the work you have done as screenwriter for the movie, “Lincoln.” In your colloquy...
View ArticleBy: Keith Pritsker
January 25, 2013 Tony Kushner c/o The Steven Barkley Agency 12 Western Avenue Petaluma, CA 94952 Re: Lincoln’s use of Euclid Dear Mr. Kushner: Last month PBS broadcast an episode of Moyers and Co. in...
View ArticleBy: Marilyn E. Jess
Go to 49:30 in the interview–he explains why the film was made the way it was. The ugly, messy aspects of life in the Civil War period is what we forget, and the film brings into focus.
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