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English
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An engrossing novel about Mary Todd Lincoln-one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. Writing from Bellevue asylum-where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night-a famous widow can finally share the story of her life in her own words. From her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through the opium-clouded years after her husband's death, we are let into the inner, intimate world of this brave and
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Historian Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln. Her story is inextricably tied with her husband's presidency, yet her life is an extraordinary chronicle on its own. From an aristocratic Kentucky family, she was an educated, well-connected Southern daughter, and when she married a Springfield lawyer she became a Northern wife--an experience mirrored by thousands of her countrywomen. The...
3) Florence Harding: the first lady, the Jazz Age, and the death of America's most scandalous president
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W. Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
4) Eleanor
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English
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This is a definitive portrait of America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy, a diplomat, activist, and humanitarian and one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.
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