My Name Was Mary - Hardcover

Rogers, Gayle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972307826 ISBN 13: 9780972307826

Publisher: Sojourners Pub Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln fell deeply in love with Mary Todd, and as he was quoted as saying many times, he never fell out. She was from a wealthy family and was scorned by all of her wealthy sisters for marrying a poor man, deeply in debt with no prospects. Separated by Lincoln's fear of giving her a life of hardship she could not bear, their love would not allow them to remain apart. Without her story, Abraham Lincoln cannot be known for the man he was.

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About the Author

Gayle Rogers studied U.S. history most of her life and taught it for twenty-eight years. Shae has always had a passion for historical research and changing perceptions of people she finds to be wrongly understood, thus her first book on the American Indian, Nakoa's Woman, and the way Frances Brawne has been maligned in her famous love affair with John Keats Dark Corners is an attack on Keats being in love with a silly girl. The greatest injustice of all to the author is the vicious slandering, lies, distortions and mudslinging on Mary Lincoln whom Lincoln loved from first sight to his death. Above all things Lincoln was no fool, and the hurt he felt for the slandering of his wife beguiled the author to show as much indignation at this as possible. This is why she wrote in the first person - to slip into the being of that very intelligent and very loving woman so hideously distorted because the burden of her grief was more than she could TEMPORARILY bear.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sojourners Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972307826
• ISBN 13: 9780972307826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400