The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780345478009)

Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all their proud accomplishments and earthy humanity. Award-winning biographer and poet Daniel Mark Epstein gives a fresh close-up view of the couple's life in Springfield, Illinois (of their twenty-two years of marriage, all but six were spent there), and dramatizes with stunning immediacy how the Lincolns' ascent to the White House brought both dazzling power and the slow, secret unraveling of the couple's unique bond.

The first full-length portrait of the marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in more than fifty years, The Lincolns is written with enormous sweep and striking imagery. Daniel Mark Epstein makes two immortal American figures seem as real and human as the rest of us.

Author: Daniel Mark Epstein
ISBN-10: 0345478002
ISBN-13: 9780345478009
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2009
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 1.21d