The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
- ISBN-10
- 0553585657
- ISBN-13
- 9780553585650
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 778
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-03
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Author
- Barbara Hambly
Description
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.
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