Jason Emerson

Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case (eBook, ePUB)

A Documentary History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1875 Mary Lincoln, the widow of a revered president, was committed to an insane asylum by her son, Robert. The trial that preceded her internment was a subject of keen national interest. In this volume, noted Lincoln scholar Jason Emerson provides a documentary history of Mary Lincoln's mental illness and insanity case, evenhandedly presenting every relevant primary source on the subject to enable a clearer view of the facts. Beginning with documents from the immediate aftermath of her husband's assassination and ending with reminiscences by friends and family in the mid-twentieth century, Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case: A Documentary History compiles more than one hundred letters, dozens of newspaper articles, editorials, and legal documents, and the daily patient progress reports from Bellevue Place Sanitarium during Mary Lincoln's incarceration. Including many materials that have never been previously published, Emerson also collects multiple reminiscences, interviews, and diaries of people who knew Mary Lincoln or were involved in the case, including the first-hand recollection of one of the jurors in the 1875 insanity trial. _x000B__x000B_Suggesting neither accusation nor exoneration of the embattled First Lady, Mary Lincoln's Insanity Case: A Documentary History gives scholars and history enthusiasts incomparable access to the documents and information crucial to understanding this vexing chapter in American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252094170
• Artikelnr.: 52024636

Autorenporträt

"Mr. Emerson pulls no punches, happily free to do so away from the strictures of academic political correctness and false orthodoxies, as well as distorting ideological hindsight. . . . the particular virtue of this volume is that it gives you the tools to make a really informed decision on the vexed topic and in so doing Mr. Emerson has rendered a great service."--Washington Times   Jason Emerson is an independent scholar living in Cazenovia, New York. He is the author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln, Lincoln the Inventor, and Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln.