Jason Emerson is a journalist and an independent historian who has been researching and writing about the Lincoln family for more than twenty-five years. His works include The Madness of Mary Lincoln; Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln; Mary Lincoln’s Insanity Case: A Documentary History; and Lincoln’s Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry.
"This extraordinarily helpful book will quickly become the go-to
source for scholars and general writers researching Mary Lincoln.
Emerson's sure guide through the tangled thickets of shifting
historiography will help all of us to write more informed works
about Mary Lincoln. A superb reference work."--Richard W. Etulain,
author of Lincoln and Oregon Country Politics in the Civil War Era
"What marks an individual for either greatness or opprobrium? In
Mary Lincoln for the Ages, Jason Emerson provides an indispensable
guide to understanding how contemporary, scholarly, and popular
representations of the controversial first lady have affected what
we think we know about her. By placing the popular accounts of Mrs.
Lincoln within the larger compendium of work on her life, Emerson
challenges readers to discover the sixteenth president's wife from
a multitude of angles."--Natalie Sweet, Abraham Lincoln Library and
Museum and Lincoln Memorial University "Anyone attempting to write
a balanced, thorough study of the Lincolns' marriage should begin
by consulting Jason Emerson's invaluable bibliography, full of
references to little-known sources as well as insightful commentary
on familiar ones."--Michael Burlingame, editor of Sixteenth
President-in-Waiting: Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield
Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860-1861
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