Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean Harvey Baker

Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean Harvey Baker

Mary Todd, daughter of the founders of Lexington, Kentucky, was raised in a world of frontier violence. First abandoned at the age of six when her mother died, Mary later fled a hostile stepmother for Springfield, where she met and, after a stormy romance, married the raw Illinois attorney, Abraham Lincoln. Their marriage lasted for twenty five years until his assassination, from which Mary never fully recovered. The desperate measures she took to win the acknowledgement she sought all her life led finally to the shock of a public insanity hearing instigated by her eldest son.

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ISBN 13	9780393305869
ISBN 10	0393305864
Title	Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Author	Jean Harvey Baker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1989-04-17
Number of pages	448
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