An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
- ISBN-10
- 0152055975
- ISBN-13
- 9780152055974
- Category
- Friendship
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Ann Rinaldi
Description
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Kentucky family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
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- 2008-11-01
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