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Title: Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by JENNIFER FLEISCHNER ISBN: 0-7679-0258-0 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: two biographies in one!
Comment: Superbly written biography of TWO women in history. I learned more about Mary Lincoln in this book than maybe I wanted to but she was an interesting one. Author paints two life portraits and blends them artfully. If you are a First Lady buff, civil war buff or women's history reader then you won't want to miss out on this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Who Was Really in Control of Her Life?
Comment: Compelling portrait of the changing status of women during the 19th century in America. Elizabeth Keckly's story of coming up from slavery and enduring emotional and physical hardships is shocking in it's matter of fact presentation. Somehow, her dignity brings to sharp focus the inhumanity of slavery and clearly shows the untenable situation the mistress' of the house also had to indure. Her ultimate success as a business woman and friend of Mary Lincoln is heartwarming and natural.
Mary Lincoln's parallel story, in contrast, begins in a rich, cultivated, "safe" home, leads to a highly public "successful" match, and yet ends in maddness. The troubling effects of untreated illness and too many deaths in her life are devastating, and have forever changed my outlook on this much maligned former first lady.
To our sensibilities, she was a victim of the social and intellectual view of a "proper" woman's place in 19th century society. Lizzy's ultimate successes were hard won, but as a former slave she, ironically, was given more freedom from society's constraints than Mary. The very things that Lizzy could do that made her "respectable" would have been considered a huge step down for Mary.
I loved every moment of this book. I didn't want it to end. Its portrait of a time in our history is beautifully realized and has given me new respect for the women of the Civil War era. If you're interested in women's history, American history, or biographies this is a must have.
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Title: Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Elizabeth Keckley, James Olney ISBN: 0195060849 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker ISBN: 0393305864 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home by Matthew Pinsker ISBN: 0195162064 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald ISBN: 0743254686 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Tad Lincoln's Father by Julia Taft Bayne, Mary A. Decredico ISBN: 0803261918 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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