Summary
A biography Mary Todd Lincoln, discussing her childhood as an orphan in Kentucky, her marriage to Abraham Lincoln, their children and family life, the criticism she endured as first lady, and the rumors of mental instability that plagued her later years. Full description
- Preface to the 2008 edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- First family : Parkers and Todds
- A second family
- Mary Todd's Lexington
- Springfield courtship
- Domestic portrait : the Springfield years
- The politics of marriage
- First Lady
- A vanishing circle
- Mrs. Widow Lincoln : the first years
- Exile and return
- Trial and confinement
- Last years.