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An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the 16th president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd.
Based on 30 years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The listener comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5'2" Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6'4" husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly.
Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the "ardent abolitionist" that some historians have portrayed. While she provided a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often "crushed his spirit," as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did - where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people - if he had not had so much practice at home.
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Ruth Painter Randall’s brilliant biography of Mary and Abraham Lincoln sheds new light upon their marriage and dispels the myths that have surrounded it. This audiobook rehabilitates the reputation of Mary Lincoln and deserves to be listen to by all those who wish to find the truth about the remarkable relationship between Mary and her husband and the impact that she made on him throughout his years in office.
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Hope enough people listen to this . . .
- De Lori Hanson en 02-13-20
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Abraham Lincoln
- A Life
- De: Michael Burlingame
- Narrado por: Douglas R Pratt
- Duración: 32 h y 55 m
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Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Based on deep research in unpublished sources as well as newly digitized sources, this work reveals how Lincoln's character and personality were the North's secret weapon in the Civil War, the key variables that spelled the difference between victory and defeat. He was a model of psychological maturity and a fully individuated man whose influence remains unrivaled in the history of American public life.
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- De nick en 07-25-24
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume Two
- De: Michael Burlingame
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 53 h y 45 m
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In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's presidency and the trials of the Civil War. He supplies fascinating details on the crisis over Fort Sumter and the relentless office seekers who plagued Lincoln. He introduces listeners to the president's battles with hostile newspaper editors and his quarrels with incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son, Willie, to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.
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A Magnificent and Important Book
- De G. Green en 03-03-16
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House of Abraham
- Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War
- De: Stephen Berry
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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For all the talk of the Civil War "pitting brother against brother", until now there has never been a single book that traces the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family could better illustrate the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of 14 siblings who were split between the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and two died, for the South.
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REVEALING, INFORMATIVE & VERY FUNNY
- De The Louligan en 11-16-09
De: Stephen Berry
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The Problem with Lincoln
- De: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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So many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln’s presidency. You’ll learn that the real reason why Lincoln launched an invasion of his own country (he never admitted that secession was legal or legitimate) was to destroy the voluntary union of the founders and replace it with a coerced union held together by violence and threats of violence, much more like the old Soviet Union than the original American union.
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Not sure about this guy
- De Luis Renta en 07-26-20
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The Lincolns
- Portrait of a Marriage
- De: Daniel Mark Epstein
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 21 h y 33 m
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In 1974 the historian Fawn Brodie predicted that a "sensitive study of the Lincoln marriage will not always defy biographers". Until now, it has. The only book-length treatment of the marriage was published in 1953, when scholars lacked today's resources and were still struggling with deep-seated prejudices about Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln. Now Daniel Mark Epstein has produced an incisive and balanced portrait of the Lincolns.
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Fascinating!
- De F. Elizabeth Hauser en 12-14-08
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume One
- De: Michael Burlingame
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 49 h y 19 m
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In the first multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our current understanding of America's 16th president.
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Psychoanalysis from afar.
- De Jackstraw en 06-02-17
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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- De: Tayari Jones
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.
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So many “WTF” moments
- De Kristen R King en 05-04-18
De: Tayari Jones
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
- A Novel
- De: Louis Bayard
- Narrado por: Robert Fass, Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that his waters being so very still, they also run deep."
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Very Entertaining
- De Deborah en 05-22-19
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Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- De: Edward Steers Jr.
- Narrado por: William Coon
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge. This is not only too simple an explanation; Blood on the Moon reveals that it is completely wrong. John Wilkes Booth was neither mad nor alone in his act of murder. He received the help of many, not the least of whom was Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the Charles County physician who has been portrayed as the innocent victim of a vengeful government.
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Thrilling and informative
- De Sean en 06-21-12
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366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
- The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
- De: Stephen Wynalda
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln’s entire presidency - day by day. In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office - including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his 11-year-old son, Willie, died.
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Great for listening!
- De J. R. Davis en 02-12-18
De: Stephen Wynalda
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Wait for Me!
- Memoirs
- De: Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire.
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The last of the Mitford Sisters
- De Irene en 01-11-11
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The Lincoln Obsession
- The Author of Manhunt Chases Down His Own Lincoln Obsession
- De: James L. Swanson
- Narrado por: James L. Swanson
- Duración: 3 h y 39 m
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With an entirely fresh take on presidential history, James Swanson, author of the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, shares the story of his lifelong obsession with the murder of America’s most revered president and the frantic hunt for his assassin. The renowned Lincoln scholar treats listeners to an audible “walking tour” of the people, places, events, and artifacts that tell the story of those horrible days in April 1865.
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who is this about?
- De pilgrimots en 04-18-21
De: James L. Swanson
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Mary
- Mrs. A. Lincoln
- De: Janis Cooke Newman
- Narrado por: Anne Buelteman
- Duración: 26 h y 33 m
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A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself. Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's most misunderstood and enigmatic women. 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. She also ran her family into debt, held séances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum - which is where Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel begins.
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Intriguing and well-written, Worst editing EVER.
- De Danielle en 03-21-15
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The Black Man's President
- Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality
- De: Michael Burlingame
- Narrado por: Tony Isabella
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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In a little-noted eulogy delivered after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the president "emphatically the black man's president," the "first to show any respect for their rights as men." Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances, like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but also to the president's own personal experiences with Black people.
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- De Amazon Customer en 06-02-23
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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer
- William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
- De: Robert M. Owens
- Narrado por: Doug McDonald
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.
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Title = Truth in Advertising
- De William Jenks en 06-18-19
De: Robert M. Owens
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Gone with the Wind
- De: Margaret Mitchell
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 49 h y 2 m
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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not to miss audible experience
- De dallas en 12-08-09
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- Veronica B.
- 04-30-24
Horrific woman
According to this book she was an absolute monster of a woman. If this book is true she brought Lincoln years of physical abuse humiliation and sorrow.
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- Frances Hampton
- 02-13-22
Interesting
We enjoyed listening to this selection. Stephen R. Thorne did a good job with the narration. We thought the author did a good job with presenting the facts and being fair. It has given us a lot to discuss. At the end, I felt badly for both of them. I do believe people who are hurting often hurt others.
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- Jeffrey H Shonert
- 07-31-24
Major reveal on what Mary Todd Lincoln was really like
I would urge you to read this book. Fascinating exposé based on facts reviewing Mary Todd as a malignant narcissist. Poor Abraham Lincoln. What he put up with is astonishing. I could not put this book down!
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- Dr. Barbara Paige
- 01-10-24
Interesting in some parts, gossipy in others
This is not a book you can read all at once. Sometimes you feel like you are reading an historical version of Gossip Girl. He eviserates Mary Lincoln, repeating every nasty thing said about her. On the other hand he emphasizes that she was thought to be bipolar and had such a sorrowful life that it’s easy to see why she was so troubled. He thinks Abraham was an abused husband both emotionally and physically and tolerated her behavior to avoid embarrassment. He believes he was seduced into marriage which might explain the hasty wedding. He doesn’t let Abraham off easily either, mentioning what a disengaged husband he was and how much he left this needy woman alone. The author doesn’t spare other authors either, and repeatedly mentions Ruth Painter Randall who wrote a poor book yes, but it was written fifty years ago. When he sticks to Lincoln it’s quite interesting and I learned some new facts, but I have mixed feelings about this book.
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