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The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln

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Mary Todd Lincoln (1818–82) was once a politically ambitious, volatile, and sharp-tongued woman, a shopaholic, and a humiliation to her son and to the powerful men who sought to regulate the Lincoln legacy for their very own political supremacy. Slandered by former Lincoln cronies and Republican operatives, such as William Herndon, Ward Hill Lamon, and Thurlow Weed; disliked by her son’s wife, the previous Mary Harlan; plagued by debts, her pension grant having been denied by Congress; conspired against by her son, Robert, at the side of Supreme Court justice David Davis, Leonard Swett, John Todd Stuart, Isaac N. Arnold, and others, she had literally nobody to show to. This account of her final years, in line with documentary evidence, sets the record straight and restores the reputation of probably the most maligned women in American political history.

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