The President's Wife

[LincolnToddFan]

Hi Anita...thanks much!

I know that Jean Baker's bio of Mary is considered seminal, and it is indeed very "dispassionate" which from the standpoint of the historian makes it very valuable.

But as a layperson who is the opposite of dispassionate I much prefer the Ruth Painter Randall biography of Mary. It's as sympathetic as can be without slipping toward whitewash, or hagiography.