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Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the president we have immortalized, has always been difficult for us to understand. She could appear poised and brilliant one moment yet rude and ugly the next. Sometimes competent and strong, able to entertain dignitaries from around the world, at other times she appeared dependent and weak. At times she seemed utterly beside herself with sobbing and screaming. Historians have mostly avoided saying very much about Mary Todd Lincoln except in reference to her husband, Abraham. To many it would seem that Mary Todd Lincoln is still an embarrassment in the tragic story of her martyred husband. But Mary Todd Lincoln lived her own tragic story even before Abraham was murdered. She was an addict, addicted to the opiates she needed for her migraine headaches.

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• Full title: Addiction of Mary Todd Lincoln
• Author: Ann E Beidler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9781603810210
• ISBN: 9781603810210
• ID: 08771295
• Publisher: Coffeetown Press
• Weight: 249 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. April 2009

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