The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln by R. Gerald McMurtry, Mark E. Neely Jr.

The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln

R. Gerald McMurtry, Mark E. Neely Jr.

203 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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In 1875 Robert Todd Lincoln caused his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln, to be committed to an insane asylum. Based on newly discovered manuscript materials, this book seeks to explain how and why.In these documents—marked by Robert Todd Lincoln as the "...

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