The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family

by Jerrold M. Packard

Book Overview

"Readable, well organized, well researched, and smoothly written. . . . Even those who know Lincoln well may learn something they did not know before." --- The Washington Post Book World From the day... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312313020
• ISBN13: 9780312313029
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Good read on the Lincoln family in the White House

Errors appear in even the best edited works. Perhaps the next edition will correct the incorrect information about the "last" photograph. As one of the multitude of Lincoln fans I found this book to contain lots of personal information about Lincoln and his family that I had not read in collected form elsewhere. I value the author's collected research that gives us a brief peek into the life of a very private man with more than his share of family tragedy. The relationship with his sons and wife is much clearer to me now that I have read this work. I consider this a well-written, highly readable account of the A. Lincoln family in the White House and belongs on every Lincoln collector's, if not scholar's bookshelf.