The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a FamilyFrom the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, a nation divided by savage conflict confronted the new president. But what many don't know was that within the White House's walls, the Lincoln's family would soon find itself suffering turmoil mirroring that of the nation he led. |
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... Mary chose an immense blue silk crinoline, the great half-globe of her skirt draped with a French lace tunic. The new first lady further adorned herself with a matched set of pearl and solid-gold bracelets, earrings, brooch, and ...
... Mary Lincoln—she did not, incidentally, call herself Mary Todd Lincoln, a common formulation used for her after her death—was a Westerner and a woman long accustomed to hard work, but she was not a frontier nai'f in the way that her ...
... Mary. The Todd family nanny was named Sally. She was the legal property of Mary's father, as were the other black men, women, and children in the Todd household, all of whom together made life flow smoothly and pleasantly for the white ...
... Mary suffered from the combined effects of a volatile temper, a moody disposition, and an inability to silence her too-often-barbed tongue, all traits running counter to ... Mary's stings. In short, Mary was alternately kind and sarcastic,
... Mary's personality, Dr. W. A. Evans, a psychiatrist, wrote that “the peculiarities of [Mary's] behavior resulted from her emotions rather than from her thinking.” He noted that her conduct was “determined by an insanity of her emotions ...
Contents
THREE Calamity in War Calamity at Home | |
FOUR Death in the White House | |
SEVEN An Unfinished Work | |
EPILOGUE The Flying Dutchman | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family Jerrold M. Packard Limited preview - 2006 |
The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family Jerrold M. Packard Limited preview - 2005 |