I am a huge Mary Lincoln fan. I feel she was born way ahead of her time. I also have no doubt that she helped make A. Lincoln the great man he became. This is a very well written book and was one of the first published about this fascinating lady. Sadly there have been few since .

My complaint is not with the book, my problem is with the narrator. Why people insist on giving Mary a moonlight and magnolia accent is truly beyond me. Mary was from Kentucky, not Mississippi for heavens sake. Kentucky may not sound like Boston , but neither does it sound like Gone With The Wind. Rarely do narrators give Abraham Lincoln a nerve grating southern drawl, so why do they give Mary one? They were both from the same state! It is just an unneeded irritant to another wise ifascinating read.