The biography of Americaís most tragic First Lady by one of Americaís most distinguished biographers and poets. A haunting portrait of an enigmatic life, written with a style and sensitivity that are both sympathetic and unflinching.
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Carl Sandburg is widely known as the agreata poet from Illinois, and especially remembered for his monumental three-volume biographical study of Abraham Lincoln. He was also a journalist, author of childrenas stories, and pathbreaking songwriter.
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An enjoyable read,
By Richard Lawrence Miller, Lincoln author (Kansas City MO USA) - See all my reviews
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Some purists criticize Sandburg, but he tells a good story and has something to back him up even if his standards are looser than those used by some historians. This book's supplementary collection of correspondence from acquaintances of young Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln is valuable. Noted scholar Paul Angle collaborated with Sandburg on this volume.
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TRAGEDY works in shadows, often dealing with a borderland of dark fate where neither the doctors nor the lawyers can tell just what is happening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Todd, White House, Mary Lincoln, New York, Abraham Lincoln, Cook County, Mercy Levering, Mary Owens, United States, Levi Todd, Henry Clay, Mary Clemmer Ames, Elizabeth Keckley, Leslie's Weekly, City Point, Elizabeth Todd, Executive Mansion, First Lady of the Land, General Ord, Lady President, Mammy Sally, Marine Band, Sangamo Journal New!
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TRAGEDY works in shadows, often dealing with a borderland of dark fate where neither the doctors nor the lawyers can tell just what is happening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Todd, White House, Mary Lincoln, New York, Abraham Lincoln, Cook County, Mercy Levering, Mary Owens, United States, Levi Todd, Henry Clay, Mary Clemmer Ames, Elizabeth Keckley, Leslie's Weekly, City Point, Elizabeth Todd, Executive Mansion, First Lady of the Land, General Ord, Lady President, Mammy Sally, Marine Band, Sangamo Journal New!
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- Women Lincoln Loved by William E. Barton in Front Matter
- Historic Families of Kentucky by Green on page 18
- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sandburg in Front Matter
- Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker on page 64
- The Revolutionary War (America Goes to War) by Anne Todd on page 12
- The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C.A. Tripp in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Lincoln before Washington: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ILLINOIS YEARS by Douglas L. Wilson on page 100, and page 126
- The Lincoln Forum: Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg, and the Civil War by John Y. Simon on page 80
- The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family by Jerrold M. Packard in Back Matter
- Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness by Paul M. Angle in Front Matter
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