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SCHREINER, SAMUEL A., Jr. The trials of Mrs. Lincoln : the harrowing never-before-told story of Mary Todd Lincoln's last and finest years
New York Donald I. Fine, Inc. 1987 155611009X / 9781556110092 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
333 pages, illustrations, cloth, dj, very good. From the publisher: Here for the first time is the uniquely insightful story behind that most enigmatic nd maligned of First Ladies, Mary Todd Lincoln. Drawing from a 20,000 page, never-before-mined treasure trove of recently discovered family letters and documents, Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr. sets straights and recreates the record with this deftly limned portrait. While her husband ran a divided country, the press labeled Mary Todd Lincoln a spy because her brothers fought - and died - for the Confederacy. They criticized her for her spendthrift ways. Shortly after Lincoln's assassination, while still in mourning, she was evicted from the White House and forced to set up housekeeping in a rundown Chicago hotel, where she struggled to keep up appearances in the face of poverty. Worst of all, she was betrayed by her son, Robert, who testified against her in a trial, branding her a 'lunatic,' and had her committed to an asylum. Driven finally to attempt suicide, Mary Lincoln was eventually released and lived most of her final years in self-imposed exile in France, a lonely but indefatigable women whose fate it was be betrayed by those she - and her martyred husband - had come to trust.
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