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The Lincoln Family Album (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
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The Lincoln Family Album (Paperback, Pbk. ed)
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The Lincoln Family Album offers a rare and revealing glimpse into
the private life of Abraham Lincoln and the first family.
Showcasing original and previously unpublished photographs
collected and preserved by Mary Todd Lincoln and four generations
of descendants, the volume includes pictures displayed in a family
album when the Lincolns lived in the White House. Chronicled are
the lives of the Lincolns' three sons, including the tragic death
of Willie in 1862, the rapid change of Tad during the war, and
Robert's marriage, children, and political career. Soldiers and
statesmen of the Civil War, period figures such as Tom Thumb and
Henry Ward Beecher, and even the family dog also graced the album
that became the nucleus of the Lincolns' personal collection. This
updated edition, which provides both additional pictures and new
introductory materials by renowned Lincoln scholars Mark E. Neely
Jr. and Harold Holzer, paints a portrait of the Lincolns' rise to
prominence and the exclusion of poorer relations after the family
moved to the nation's capital. With 150 illustrations and detailed
captions, this authoritative and enlightening nineteenth-century
history also includes capsule biographies of the Lincolns' friends
and relatives. In such images as the First Lady in mourning or the
assassin John Wilkes Booth, the pictures cannot disguise the
painful truth about a family that suffered as many tragedies as
triumphs. Willie's death at the age of eleven abruptly ended Mary
and Abraham's personal collecting, but Lincoln descendants
continued the tradition. The last pages of ""The Lincoln Family
Album"" conclude with the death of Robert Lincoln's last
grandchild, Robert Todd Lincoln Beck - with, in 1985, ending the
direct line of Abraham and Mary Lincoln.
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