Mary Lincoln for the Ages

[Donna McCreary]

Jason offers a fair view of Mary - the good and the bad.

In his book, LINCOLN'S LOVER: MARY LINCOLN IN POETRY, he offers the following quotes:
p. 70 - "Mary's behaviors during and after the war, which many considered bizarre and ultimately insane, were not unique to her especially not in wartime. And while she most likely did suffer some sort of mental illness, who could not then - or cannot today - understand her position and empathize with her trials and tribulations?"

p. 88 - "In the years I have spent researching and writing articles about books about Mary Lincoln, I always have found her to be a remarkable and fascinating woman, largely misunderstood, often wrongly maligned, and deserving of great honesty about her as well as sympathy for her. Unfortunately, I often am criticized merely for my maleness, as if my gender prevents me from understanding who Mary Lincoln was."

I have often considered that female historians are discriminated against for just being female, but I have never considered that one's maleness prevents them from examining history.