Mary Todd Lincoln A Biography [Paperback]

Beautifully crafted, entertaining as only the best biographies can be, and rich with superb insights and wonderful anecdotes about nineteenth-century family and domestic life, [this] is a complex and moving character study of a woman tragically out of step with her time and place.This exciting and important book is a major contribution to Lincolniana. Absorbing and convincing, this is one of the few books that deserve to be called definitive.A richly documented and sympathetic study.In the thriving cottage industry of Lincoln studies Bakers readable and sympathetic biography is easily the definitive account of the troubled former First Lady. Bakers principal contribution is in recognizing Mary Todd Lincoln on her own terms. A striking success&the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling.