Author:
Jason Emerson
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Review by: Mandy A
This book is a really good example of wasted potential. Meant to be an
examination of the alleged extreme mental illness of First Lady Mary
Todd Lincoln all it ever manages to do is beat the proverbial dead
horse. Newly discovered letters concerning her state of mind are not
handled in a completely objective way and subjected to endless streams
of psychobabble delivered from a layman's modern prospective. No real
analysis or respect, just saying this or that over and over. Lost count
of all the times he called Robert Todd Lincoln a "Victorian era
gentleman" or the like. For all the shining reviews on back I expected
better.
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