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This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln."A striking success the account Mary Todd Lincoln: a biography by Baker, Jean H; Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) DLC.
Mary Todd, daughter of the founders Jean Baker provides a thorough psycho-social profile of Mary Todd Lincoln, highlighting the early family influences and abandonments that shaped her character, ambition and well-documented idiosyncracies.
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Mary Lincoln's life as Mary Todd Lincoln: Biography as Social History by Jean H. Baker In the fall of , Mary Todd Lincoln returned to Ken tucky for the last time. She had been born in Lexington in and had spent the first two decades of her life in the town that hoped to become "the Athens of the West." But after her.
A biography of the Jean Harvey Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history. She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. A privileged daughter of the proud.
Mary Todd Lincoln: A In her splendid biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, Jean H. Baker, a professor of history at Goucher College and the author of three books on the Civil War period, explains why Mary is regarded as the most controversial and even reviled first lady in nineteenth-century American history. While Mary Lincoln's.
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