Book TV: Jason Emerson, "The Madness of Mary Lincoln"

[smilingjenn]

Another great book on the Lincoln family is called "The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family" by Charles Lachman

[davidinfo13]

may not be crazy, but definately a despicable woman

[bookkeeper57]

@davidinfo13 Mrs Lincoln was not "despicable"; she survived tragedy. Even after her death, people call her "crazy". She was a "confederate spy" for one public incident. She & a group of Washington ladies were about to tour the captured southern ironclad, the Merriamac. She paused at the gangplank, covered with a riddled confederate flag. She ordered it taken up: "too many brave men died to defend that flag, I will not wipe my boots on it". For that, the press tore her apart.