Book to Movie: Lincoln

The Book to Movie of Month
  • Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Pages: 944
  • Audio: 41 hours and 32 minutes
The Book to Movie of Month
  • Director: Steven Spielberg
  • Screen Writer: Tony Kushner
  • Running Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes

Cast:Characters

  • Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln
  • Sally Field as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Jared Harris as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant[
  • Adam Driver as Samuel Beckwith
  • David Strathairn as Secretary of State William H. Seward
  • Bruce McGill as Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
  • Joseph Cross as Major John Hay
  • Jeremy Strong as John George Nicolay, Lincoln's private secretary
  • Grainger Hines as Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles
  • Dakin Matthews as Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher[
  • Tommy Lee Jones as Congressman Thaddeus Stevens
  • Lee Pace as Congressman Fernando Wood
  • Peter McRobbie as Congressman George H. Pendleton
  • Hal Holbrook as Francis Preston Blair
  • James Spader as William N. Bilbo
  • Jackie Earle Haley as Alexander H. Stephen