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In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a machine trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for 40 years. The trunk included a exceptional find: 25 characters regarding Mary Todd Lincoln's life and insanity case, characters assumed long demolished by the Lincoln family. Mary had written 20 of the characters herself, over fifty percent from the crazy asylum to which her boy Robert possessed her committed, and many in the calendar months and years after. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first study of Mary Lincoln's mental disease predicated on the lost characters, and the first new interpretation of the insanity case in 20 years. This compelling history of the purported insanity of 1 of America's most tragic first ladies provides new and previously unpublished materials, including the psychiatric analysis of Mary's mental disease and her lost will. Emerson charts Mary Lincoln's mental disease throughout her life and identifies how a predisposition to psychiatric disease and a life of mental and mental trauma led to her determination to the asylum. The first ever to point out unequivocally that Mary Lincoln suffered with bipolar disorder, Emerson offers a psychiatric point of view on the insanity case predicated on consultations with psychiatrist experts. This booklet uncovers Abraham Lincoln's knowledge of his wife's mental disease and the degree to which he helped keep her stable. In addition, it traces Mary's life after her husband's assassination, including her severe despair and physical illnesses, the harsh public criticism she endured, the Old Clothes Scandal, and the fatality of her boy Tad. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the storyplot not only of Mary, but also of Robert. It details how he handled his mother's increasing irrationality and just why it humiliated his Victorian sensibilities; it points out the reasons he had his mother committed, his response to her suicide try out, and her story to murder him. In addition, it shows why and exactly how he ultimately agreed to her release from the asylum eight calendar months early on, and what their marriage was like until Mary's fatality. This historical page-turner provides viewers for the first time with the lost characters that historians have been searching for for 80 years.
