An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd By Michael Burlingame

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An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd.Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish the young man—probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon.” Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The reader comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5’2” Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6’4” husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the “ardent abolitionist” that some historians have portrayed. While she providid a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often “crushed his spirit,” as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did—where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people—if he had not had so much practice at home.

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Do not blame the bearer of the bad news for the fact that this book is an unflattering portrayal of Mary Lincoln. She was an unpleasant and deeply troubled woman who managed to gain the enmity of Lincoln’s friends and peers, the wives of Lincoln’s professional associates and military leaders, her own relatives, and nearly the entire population of Springfield Illinois. Her own son had her committed to an insane asylum in 1873. Having read the other reviews posted here I can’t help but wonder if any of the writers have actually read the entire book or bothered to check the sources cited. Despite the false claim of shoddy research and lack of sources by one reviewer, there are 152 pages of source notes and citations provided online that can be reviewed or downloaded at the website provided in the book.The only ax/axe being ground here is by angry reviewers who want to pillory one of the foremost Lincoln scholars for writing what most historians have long known to be true about Mrs. Lincoln. To call a distinguished scholar a misogynist while decrying his work as a hit job seems to be hypocritical at best, and according to multiple accounts quoted in the book, Mary Lincoln physically abused her husband. This book is not about gender-bashing or misogyny and reading those motives into this tremendously well-written piece of Lincoln scholarship can only be considered misdirected animus by the reviewer. The editorial reviews on this page extoll the value of this work and the credentials of its author far better than I could, but in my opinion it is contemptible to impugn the character of the author, or for that matter any historical figure (such as Mary Lincoln) without evidence or proof, which this book contains a copious abundance of.This work contains harsh truths that are substantiated with a massive amount of evidence in the form of direct quotes from people who knew the Lincolns well, such as Abraham’s long-time law partner William Herndon. After Lincoln’s assassination Herndon collected the depositions of dozens of people, which were not challenged by contemporary scholars for their veracity. The so-called Herndon’s Informants provided a treasure trove of primary source information about the Lincoln’s from those who knew them best. The discrediting of William Herndon’s research was itself a hit job perpetrated by twentieth century Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald who concluded that Herndon “hated” Mary Lincoln, something that historian Douglas Wilson calls a presumption, not a fact. Donald’s work inspired a Mary Lincoln hagiography by Ruth Painter Randall that corroborated Donald’s view of Herndon which has largely and mistakenly prevailed to this day.An American Marriage is a deeply researched look at the Lincoln’s that does not concern itself with the niceties of giving equal treatment to the non-existent evidence that Mary Lincoln was a good wife or political advisor to her husband. The flaws of both Lincolns are addressed, and the testimony of the people that knew them speaks for itself, and it is their words that paint a dire portrait of the marriage, not the author’s.

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