Time of Their Lives

Using digitally restored page images from the original publications, first published in 1952 and 1886, the lives of the mother of Abraham Lincoln and a celebrated former First Lady bring together a fascinating look back at two women whose lives changed US history and those who knew them from the definitive works by historians Harold Edward Briggs and Ernestine Bennett Briggs, as well as editor Lucia Beverly Cutts. Also included in this edition is additional biographical information detailing little known historical facts following the deaths of Nancy Hanks Lincoln 1818 and Dolly Madison in 1849 that have not been published previously.