Mary Todd Lincoln A Biography

Name: Mary Todd Lincoln A Biography
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ISBN: 9780393333039

ISBN-10: 0393333035

ISBN-13: 9780393333039

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jean H. Baker

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"Absorbing and convincing...a major contribution to Lincolniana."--David H. Donald, author ofLincoln This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Even as the nation suffered secession and civil war, Mary experienced the tragedies of losing three of her four children and then her husband. An insanity trial orchestrated by her surviving son led to her confinement in an asylum. Mary Todd…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Illustrations appear following page


Preface to the 2008 edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



First Family: Parkers and Todds



A Second Family



Mary Todd's Lexington



Springfield Courtship



Domestic Portrait: The Springfield Years



The Politics of Marriage



First Lady



A Vanishing Circle



Mrs. Widow Lincoln: The First Years



Exile and Return



Trial and Confinement



Last Years


Notes


Index