Lincoln as secular saint

[LincolnToddFan]

Hi Eva,

It's a highly romanticized work of historical fiction about the courtship and marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. It was very popular, a best-seller. It was written in the 50's around the same time as Ruth Painter Randall's sympathetic biography of Mary. These were-in my opinion-the first two major successful attempts to "rescue" Mary's reputation and her marriage from the severely negative impact of the first wave of post-Herndon writers like Dale Carnegie, who assured us that Lincoln's marriage to Mary was more tragic than his death at the hands of an assassin.

"Love Is Eternal" is, as I posted, highly romanticized but it's very well written historical fiction.