Book Breaks with Lois Romano on An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

 

Date & Time: October 4, 2026, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln’s fall from grace was final and complete in 1875, when—at the urging of her only surviving child—a Chicago jury confined her to a mental institution. An Inconvenient Widow challenges the narrative that her trial had seemingly secured: that Mary Todd Lincoln had been yet another incumbrance upon the saintly President Lincoln. The truth is more complex.

 

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