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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... marriage. The second Mrs. Todd gave her husband seven more children, which meant an astonishing twenty-eight years separated Robert's first child by his first wife from his last child by his second wife. Lost in a crowded field of a ...
... married well in far-off Springfield, Illinois, and who sympathized with the younger girl's feelings of suffocation ... marry a well-situated man, a standard series of tasks not expected by either sister to take too much time or effort ...
... described as low—though not entirely without promise. Mary saw a man with a future far more auspicious than those of her two brothers-in-law. In her budding young womanhood she probably did possess the necessary characteristics to marry.
... marriage did bring Mary satisfaction and evidence that her optimism about the soft-spoken lawyer had paid off. Even her family soon began to acknowledge the extraordinary worth in Lincoln. In their early days the couple paid four ...
... marriage, his wife drove him ahead, sometimes subtly, sometimes relentlessly. She urged Lincoln to continue taking successive steps forward, to push himself harder, to reach out for the next prize. As with many couples, in the first ...
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 |