Description: In 1865, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln shocked a nation forever changed by the events he put in motion. But as much as Lincoln was revered, his wife was hated in equal measure. Mary Todd Lincoln was despised by many as a traitor whose inexplicable hysterics and wild spending sprees undermined her husband's heroic successes. Ten years after her husband's death, the president's widow was incarcerated in an insane asylum by her only surviving son. It is from this little-known episode that Hambly spins her intimate, insightful tapestry of this difficult, too-intelligent woman's life, from a much-courted belle's days on the southern frontier, through the grueling horrors of the Civil War, to the flashier, less tolerant Gilded Age. Born in a world that bore almost no resemblance to the one in which she tried to make a life for herself after her husband's murder, Mary Todd Lincoln's life, her grief-and her choices-make THE EMANCIPATOR'S WIFE a story like few before or since.

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