In May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from the news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide. Mary's shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by her eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. Although they have long been estranged, Elizabeth knows Mary's tenuous mental health has deteriorated through decades of trauma and loss. Yet is her suicide...

"A talented seamstress, born enslaved in 1818, bought freedom for herself and her son."--

Explores the tumultuous marriage between Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, including an examination of her illicit business dealings, alleged physical abuse, and their disagreements about values. Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. Burlingame shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed...

"Novel about the death of William Wallace Lincoln, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's 3rd son." -- Washington, nuit du 25 février 1862. Dans le cimetière de Oak Hill, près de la Maison-Blanche, quelque chose se prépare. Ce jour-là, on a enterré un enfant prénommé Willie, qui n'est autre que le fils du Président des États-Unis. En pleine nuit, Abraham Lincoln, dévasté de chagrin, vient se recueillir en secret sur sa sépulture. Il croit...

Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.

"The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, President...