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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... 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 rather than of her mind.”14 What many perceived as ...
... wrote, “I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughter”19—but Mary's delight in girls suggests that she deeply wanted a daughter, one who would grow up sharing her woman's world, then a sphere dramatically separate from that of men ...
... wrote to his fiancee, Therena, loyally waiting for him back in Illinois: “John and I are moping our day away here in our offices like a couple of great owls, and expect in an hour or two to go down to Willards and get our 'daily bread ...
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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 |