This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's life, Lincoln said: “I want to punish the young man-probably in less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon.”īased on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. An American Marriage The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Michael BurlingameĪn enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd.Ībraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy.
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