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Mrs Lincoln (Paperback)
Janis Cooke Newman
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May 20th. Mrs Mary Lincoln admitted today - from Chicago - Age 56 -
Widow of ex-President Lincoln - declared insane by the Cook County
Court May 19th - 1875. This is the Patient Progress Reports for
Bellevue Place Sanatorium.Incarcerated in an insane asylum after
committal proceedings instigated by her own son, Mary Lincoln
resolves to tell her own story in order to preserve and to prove
her own sanity. Mary Todd Lincoln the original 'First Lady' is a
figure of some notoriety in the USA: British readers introduced to
her for the first time will encounter a fascinating, complex and
captivating heroine of history.
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Mary (Paperback)
Janis Cooke Newman
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R654
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Discovery Miles 5 870
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**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's most
misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to be
called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of
emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children
and the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran her
family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was
committed to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,
Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.
Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from her
tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through the
years after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled with
passion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity and
redemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world of
this brave and fascinating woman.
Janis Cooke Newman first saw the baby who would become her son on a videotape. He was 10 months old and naked, lying on a metal changing table while a woman in a white lab coat and a babushka tried to make him smile for the camera.
Four months later, the Newmans traveled to Moscow to get their son. Russia was facing its first democratic election, and the front-runner was an anti-American Communist who they feared would block adoptions.
For nearly a month, the Newmans spent every day at the orphanage with the child they'd named Alex, waiting for his adoption to be approved. As Russia struggled with internal conflict, the metro line they used was bombed, and another night, the man who was to sign their papers was injured in a car-bombing.
Finally, when the Newmans had begun to consider kidnapping, their adoption coordinator, through the fog of a hangover, made the call: Alex was theirs.
Written with a keen sense of humor, The Russian Word for Snow is a clear-eyed look at the experience of making a family through adoption.
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