Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words “Love Is Eternal.” But their happiness won’t last nearly so long.
Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls.
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