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

From the annual Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the author discusses the mental health of Mary Lincoln. Some of his book is based on recently discovered letters written by Mary Lincoln while she was confined in a mental hospital.

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[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.

[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