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The first presidents wife to be called first lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. Lincoln was known to write in books only very rarely, and this particular book did not bear any sort of recognizable. The last time, i was struck by the statement that laure melfort translated the book from latin so that bea can read it. Parents, robert smith todd elizabeth ann parker todd. Selected new nonfiction lincoln books lincoln books are still rolling off the presses, with no end in sight. Of a good kentucky family, she was living with her sister, daughterinlaw of gov. Winkle goes beyond the common image of the couple, illustrating that although the waters of the lincoln household were far from calm, the lincolns were above all a house united.
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