Stacy Pratt McDermott is Assistant Director and Associate Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln.

"A very readable, quite detailed, and surprisingly nuanced biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, perhaps the most maligned First Lady in history. She gives us far more information about Mary Lincoln’s early life, and particularly her education, than most accounts. McDermott argues that Mary Lincoln was a more complex person than she is usually portrayed as, quite intelligent and adaptable, who suffered many telling blows, a matter that is often overlooked. McDermott also uses the life of Mary Lincoln to throw light on the complex social, political, and gender issues of the age, making her book also a useful general read for those with an interest in the Civil War era." — The NYMAS Review – Spring 2016

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Mary LincolnChapter 1: Mary Ann ToddChapter 2: From Mary Todd to Mary LincolnChapter 3: Mrs. Abraham LincolnChapter 4: Mrs. President LincolnChapter 5: The Widow LincolnEpiloguePart II: DocumentsBibliography

Stacy Pratt McDermott is Assistant Director and Associate Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln.

"A very readable, quite detailed, and surprisingly nuanced biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, perhaps the most maligned First Lady in history. She gives us far more information about Mary Lincoln’s early life, and particularly her education, than most accounts. McDermott argues that Mary Lincoln was a more complex person than she is usually portrayed as, quite intelligent and adaptable, who suffered many telling blows, a matter that is often overlooked. McDermott also uses the life of Mary Lincoln to throw light on the complex social, political, and gender issues of the age, making her book also a useful general read for those with an interest in the Civil War era." — The NYMAS Review – Spring 2016

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Mary LincolnChapter 1: Mary Ann ToddChapter 2: From Mary Todd to Mary LincolnChapter 3: Mrs. Abraham LincolnChapter 4: Mrs. President LincolnChapter 5: The Widow LincolnEpiloguePart II: DocumentsBibliography

Stacy Pratt McDermott is Assistant Director and Associate Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln.

"A very readable, quite detailed, and surprisingly nuanced biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, perhaps the most maligned First Lady in history. She gives us far more information about Mary Lincoln’s early life, and particularly her education, than most accounts. McDermott argues that Mary Lincoln was a more complex person than she is usually portrayed as, quite intelligent and adaptable, who suffered many telling blows, a matter that is often overlooked. McDermott also uses the life of Mary Lincoln to throw light on the complex social, political, and gender issues of the age, making her book also a useful general read for those with an interest in the Civil War era." — The NYMAS Review – Spring 2016

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Mary LincolnChapter 1: Mary Ann ToddChapter 2: From Mary Todd to Mary LincolnChapter 3: Mrs. Abraham LincolnChapter 4: Mrs. President LincolnChapter 5: The Widow LincolnEpiloguePart II: DocumentsBibliography