An inconvenient widow the torment, trial, and triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
"Mary Lincoln was at the center of politics at a time when society's expectations for women were rigid and circumscribed. The product of Southern aristocracy, she grew up among an influential clan of politicians and elites who founded Lexington, Kentucky. Mary's early exposure to the male-dominated...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Becoming Mary: pain and priviledge
- Coming of age: education and enlightenment
- Looking for a husband
- The most miserable man living
- Becoming Mrs. Lincoln
- Eighth and Jackson
- Mrs. Lincoln goes to Washington
- Out of the darkness
- At long last, a win
- Elation, expectations, and missteps
- The chaotic road to the White House
- Becoming Mrs. President Lincoln
- Hellcat on the loose
- For the love of shopping
- Target on her back
- The ball
- The idolized son
- Circles of death
- Family ties that do not bind
- An end in sight
- Fear
- The assassination
- Nowhere to go
- Bereaved and broken
- A home of her own
- A second assassination
- The betrayal
- Self-banishment
- Anguish, desolation, and decline
- The insanity trial of Mary Lincoln
- The escape
- The final chapter.
