Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Mary Todd Lincoln is confined to an asylum, branded mad by a world that never understood her grief or her defiance. Through her recollections, she revisits her turbulent marriage to Abraham Lincoln — a love marked by passion, politics, and unimaginable loss. Torn between public duty and private anguish, Mary’s voice rises with fierce intelligence and aching humanity, reclaiming her story from history’s judgment. In this luminous reimagining, she emerges not as a tragic footnote, but as a woman of extraordinary strength and longing.