Abraham Lincoln is the most revered president in American
history, but the woman at the center of his life, his wife, Mary,
has remained a historical enigma. In this definitive, magisterial
biography, Catherine Clinton draws on important new research to
illuminate the remarkable life of Mary Lincoln, and at a time when
the nation was being tested as never before.
Mary Lincoln's story is inextricably tied with the story of
America and with her husband's presidency, yet her life is an
extraordinary chronicle on its own. Born into 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 Lincolns endured many personal
setbacks--including the death of a child and defeats in two U.S.
Senate races--along the road to the White House. Mrs. Lincoln
herself suffered scorching press attacks, but remained faithful to
the Union and her wartime husband. She was also the first
presidential wife known as the "First Lady," and it was in this
role that she gained her lasting fame. The assassination of her
husband haunted her for the rest of her life. Her disintegrating
downward spiral resulted in a brief but traumatizing involuntary
incarceration in an asylum and exile in Europe during her later
years. One of the most tragic and mysterious of nineteenth-century
figures, Mary Lincoln and her story symbolize the pain and loss of
Civil War America.
Authoritative and utterly engrossing, "Mrs. Lincoln" is the
long-awaited portrait of the woman who so richly contributed to
Lincoln's life and legacy.
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