Mary Todd Lincoln: A BiographyW. W. Norton & Company, 1987 - 429 страници A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary Todd (1818-1882) was raised in a world of frontier violence. Subjected to her first abandonment at age 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. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Mary was at her husband's side on the night of his assassination, and never recovered from that greatest in a series of grievous abandonments. The desperate measures she took to win the acknowledgment she sought all her life led finally to the shock of a public insanity hearing instigated by her eldest son. In this elegant biography, Jean Baker uses previously untapped letters and documents to portray a woman whose will carried her across the recognized boundaries of female behavior. Book jacket. |
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Parkers and Todds | 3 |
A Second Family | 25 |
Mary Todds Lexington | 53 |
Springfield Courtship | 74 |
The Springfield Years | 99 |
The Politics of Marriage | 130 |
First Lady | 163 |
A Vanishing Circle | 208 |
The First Years | 244 |
Exile and Return | 281 |
Trial and Confinement | 315 |
Last Years | 351 |
Notes | 371 |
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