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The first full-length portrait of the marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in more than fifty years, The Lincolns is a fascinating new work of American history by Daniel Mark Epstein, an award-winning biographer and poet known for his passionate understanding of the Civil War period. Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all their proud accomplishments and earthy humanity. Epstein gives a fresh close-up view of the couple’s life in Springfield, Illinois (of their twenty-two years of marriage, all but six were spent there). We witness the troubled courtship of an aristocratic and bewitching Southern belle and a struggling young lawyer who concealed his great ambition with self-deprecating humor; the excitement and confusion of the newlyweds as they begin their marriage in a small room above a tavern, and the early signs of Mary’s instability and Lincoln’s moodiness; their joyful creation of a home on the edge of town as Lincoln builds his law practice and makes his first forays into politics. We discover their consuming ambition as Lincoln achieves celebrity status during his famed debates with Stephen A. Douglas, which lead to Lincoln’s election to the presidency. The Lincolns’ ascent to the White House brought both dazzling power and the slow, secret unraveling of the couple’s unique bond. The Lincolns dramatizes certain well-known events with stunning new immediacy: Mary’s shopping sprees, her defrauding of the public treasury to increase her budget, and her jealousy, which made enemies for her and problems for the president. Yet she was also a brilliant hostess who transformed the shabby White House into a social center crucial to the Union’s success. After the death of their little boy, not a year after Lincoln took office, Mary turned for solace to spirit mediums, but her grief drove her to the edge of madness. In the end, there was little left of the Lincolns’ relationship save their enduring devotion to each other and to their surviving children.Written with enormous sweep and striking imagery, The Lincolns is an unforgettable epic set at the center of a crucial American administration. It is also a heartbreaking story of how time and adversity can change people, and of how power corrupts not only morals but affections. Daniel Mark Epstein’s The Lincolns makes two immortal American figures seem as real and human as the rest of us.

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The author in this book did a tremendous amount of research and found things no one had found before about the Lincolns. The result is a fascinating story about the love story that was the marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Both suffered from depression and likely from mental illness, but who of us can say that we don't. They came from very different backgrounds, but Mary had decided she wanted to marry someone who would be president. She got her wish, but it ended the happiness that the Lincolns had as a family.Mary lived a very isolated life as a young wife in Springfield, Illinois. She had two young boys while living in a tiny room in a boarding home that didn't appreciate children. Abe was a lawyer struggling financially and was gone for weeks at a time. Mary was left to fend for herself, and she tried to make the best of it, but she badly missed her husband. It is impossible not to sympathize with her. Things got much better when they were able to buy a house. Mary had a terrible temper, and she started becoming violent toward her husband in 1861. Today she would be arrested for domestic violence, but at that time, she was a huge embarrassment. Abe was always very solicitous of her, but there was only so much he could do.But Mary could also be very kind. My favorite story from the book was about a neighbor woman who gave birth the same day Tad Lincoln was born. The woman was extremely sick, and her baby was dying because she couldn't feed it. Abe would sneak into the house, grab the baby, and bring it to Mary. She would nurse the baby until it was satisfied; Abe would bring the baby home and rock its cradle with his foot until the baby fell asleep. I wish the author would have reported on whether the baby made it.Mary's overspending while she was First Lady is well known, but this book explains that the interior of the White House was in shambles when she moved in. She made it into a showcase worthy of its occupants. But when it came to her wardrobe, she seemed to have no self control at all. The President was so tied up with the war that he paid no attention at all to what she might be spending. When she was constantly going to New York City on shopping trips, what did he think she was using for money?I can't recommend this book highly enough. It was never boring. I loved Mary Todd while at the same time hating how she treated so many people.

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