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The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary
Candace Fleming
$24.99
ISBN: 0375836187
Format: Hardcover
 
Pub Date: 10/01/2008
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Shipping Weight: 2.9lbs
   
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This is a fabulous wealth of primary sources. Not just photographs of Lincoln, but newspaper accounts, engravings, cartoons, letters, book covers, and short narrative descriptions of each one. Includes the latest Lincoln discoveries (yes, they’re still finding things!) including letters between Mary and her son Robert which were only discovered in 2006. Mary’s life from 1865 to her death in 1882 is a tragic tale. Their second son, Eddie had died, age four in 1850. Willie had died while they were in the White House. Tad died in 1871 at the age of 18. Of their four sons, only Robert survived. And he and Mary became estranged after his marriage in 1869.

The focus of the scrapbook is a personal history of the Lincolns, though it necessarily includes references to the political and military events of the day. The author spent five years researching, collecting items, and writing the book. Not a continuous narrative, but as the title declares, a scrapbook of fascinating, original items.
 
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