Janis Cooke Newman
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Mary: A Novel
Janis Cooke Newman
Writing from Bellevue asylum—where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night—a famous widow can finally share the story of her life in her own words. From her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through the opium-clouded years after her husband’s death, we are let into the inner, intimate world of this brave and fascinating woman. A dramatic tale filled with passion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity and redemption, this is the unforgettable story of Mary Todd Lincoln.
