The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln

The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0803293259
ISBN-13 : 9780803293250
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Book Synopsis The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln by : Samuel Agnew Schreiner

Download or read book The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln written by Samuel Agnew Schreiner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818?82) was a politically ambitious, volatile, and sharp-tongued woman, a shopaholic, and an embarrassment to her son and to the powerful men who sought to control the Lincoln legacy for their own political supremacy. Slandered by former Lincoln cronies and Republican operatives, such as William Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, and Thurlow Weed; disliked by her son?s wife, the former Mary Harlan; plagued by debts, her pension grant having been denied by Congress; conspired against by her son, Robert, along with Supreme Court justice David Davis, Leonard Swett, John Todd Stuart, Isaac N. Arnold, and others, she had literally no one to turn to. This account of her final years, based on documentary evidence, sets the record straight and restores the reputation of one of the most maligned women in American political history.


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