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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bantam Dell Pub Group
Publication date
December 27, 2005
Pages
608
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553381931
ISBN-10
0553381938
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.30 lbs.
Original list price
$14.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In 1865, in the wake of her husband's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln struggles to cope amid the animosity and confusion that surrounds her, in a historical novel that captures the saga of one of the most misunderstood women in American history, from her privileged youth in the South to the difficulties of her later years. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words âLove Is Eternal.â
But their happiness wonât last nearly so long. Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. As Lincolnâs star rises, the pleasure-loving Mary learns, often the hard way, the rules of being a politicianâs wife. But by the time the fiery storm of war passes, tragedy will have claimed two sons, scandal will shadow her days as First Lady, and an assassinâs bullet will take Lincoln himself, leaving Mary alone and all but forgotten by the nation that owed her husband its survival.
Yet it is in the years to come that Mary Todd Lincoln will truly come into her own. In public, she will fight to preserve Lincolnâs memory even as she battles a bitterly contested insanity trial. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayalsâboth real and imaginedâof family and friends.
With a gifted novelistâs imagination and a historianâs eye for detail, Barbara Hambly tells a story of astonishing scope, richly peopled with real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, a tour-de-force tale of power, politics, and the role of women in nineteenth- century America. The result is a Mary Todd Lincoln few have seen and none will forgetâthe fascinating, controversial woman of whom her husband could say: âMy wife is as handsome as when she was a girl and I fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen outââMary Todd, the woman who loved Abraham Lincoln.
From the Hardcover edition.
But their happiness wonât last nearly so long. Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. As Lincolnâs star rises, the pleasure-loving Mary learns, often the hard way, the rules of being a politicianâs wife. But by the time the fiery storm of war passes, tragedy will have claimed two sons, scandal will shadow her days as First Lady, and an assassinâs bullet will take Lincoln himself, leaving Mary alone and all but forgotten by the nation that owed her husband its survival.
Yet it is in the years to come that Mary Todd Lincoln will truly come into her own. In public, she will fight to preserve Lincolnâs memory even as she battles a bitterly contested insanity trial. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayalsâboth real and imaginedâof family and friends.
With a gifted novelistâs imagination and a historianâs eye for detail, Barbara Hambly tells a story of astonishing scope, richly peopled with real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, a tour-de-force tale of power, politics, and the role of women in nineteenth- century America. The result is a Mary Todd Lincoln few have seen and none will forgetâthe fascinating, controversial woman of whom her husband could say: âMy wife is as handsome as when she was a girl and I fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen outââMary Todd, the woman who loved Abraham Lincoln.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Bantam Dell Pub Group (January 25, 2005)
9780553803013 | details & prices | 608 pages | 6.25 × 8.50 × 1.50 in. | 2.15 lbs | List price $25.00
About: In 1865, in the wake of her husband's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln struggles to cope amid the animosity and confusion that surrounds her, in a historical novel that captures the saga of one of the most misunderstood women in American history.
About: In 1865, in the wake of her husband's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln struggles to cope amid the animosity and confusion that surrounds her, in a historical novel that captures the saga of one of the most misunderstood women in American history.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Bantam Dell Pub Group (December 27, 2005)
9780553381931 | details & prices | 608 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $14.00
About: In 1865, in the wake of her husband's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln struggles to cope amid the animosity and confusion that surrounds her, in a historical novel that captures the saga of one of the most misunderstood women in American history, from her privileged youth in the South to the difficulties of her later years.
About: In 1865, in the wake of her husband's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln struggles to cope amid the animosity and confusion that surrounds her, in a historical novel that captures the saga of one of the most misunderstood women in American history, from her privileged youth in the South to the difficulties of her later years.
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