An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd (Michael Burlingame - LP) jeff Lincoln’s anecdotes and jokes have

Lincoln’s anecdotes and jokes have become detached from the context that had given them their political and cultural bite

and places the struggle in the greater context of American and world history

and Civil War History

Gerald Earley

An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd (Michael Burlingame - LP) jeff Lincoln’s anecdotes and jokes haveAn American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd by Michael Burlingame Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded connubial bliss as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: I want to punish the young manprobably in less than a year he will