Full name: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

Author: Jean H. Baker Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393305869 9780393333039 0393305864 0393333035

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. Similar books: Mrs. Lincoln by Catherine Clinton A. Lincoln by Ronald C. White Lincoln by Richard Carwardine Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates Honor's Voice by Douglas L. Wilson Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller The Eloquent President by Ronald C. White The Madness of Mary Lincoln by Jason Emerson Seward by Walter Stahr Lincoln by David Herbert Donald Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator by Augusta Stevenson The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach Fierce Patriot by Robert L. O'Connell President Lincoln by William Lee Miller Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown