#1621: Author Louis Bayard’s “Courting Mr. Lincoln”

August 27, 2019 • 00:30:00
#1621: Author Louis Bayard’s “Courting Mr. Lincoln”
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#1621: Author Louis Bayard’s “Courting Mr. Lincoln”

Aug 27 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Louis Bayard’s new novel, “Courting Mr. Lincoln,” is an intimately drawn evocation of the love between the brilliant, melancholic future president and the two people who knew him best: his charming confidante Joshua Speed and his spirited future wife, Mary Todd.

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