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Author Frederic Hunter is available for telephone call-in
radio shows and interviews. Contact
Nebbadoon Press
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When Abraham Lincoln courted Mary Todd, she called him
Mr. Lincoln. He called her Molly. Poverty, lack of self-confidence
and polish, and a backwoods upbringing, all stood in his
way. He was a self-taught young lawyer, plagued with debts
and a timidity around women. She was of aristocratic background,
highly educated, witty and vivacious-all the things Abe
was not. Everyone in Springfield, Illinois, thought them
badly matched.
Frederic Hunter, in this highly entertaining novel, imaginatively
conjures the "hidden" history of Abe and Molly's
courtship. Hunter's novel soars as he catapults us through
the surprising and at times turbulent personal relationship
of this most famous American couple. Imagined in the greatest
detail from the existing historical record, Abe and Molly's
lives unfold across the pages as they discover their love
in frontier America of the late 1830s.
'Abraham Lincoln's courtship of and marriage to Mary Todd
has been the subject of numerous myths, controversies and
mysteries. Was there a formal engagement between them that
Lincoln broke, did he fall into a deep depression after
doing so, what was the 'fatal 1st of January 1841' did he
really love her or marry her only because of guilt at breaking
the engagement, was their relationship as stormy as portrayed
by some historians? Frederic Hunter's "Abe and Molly,"
a sensitive novel based on genuine research, offers convincing
speculations and plausible answers to these questions. All
readers interested in the Lincolns will find this book a
pleasure to read." --James M. McPherson
For history connoisseurs: the author includes a special
section at the end of the novel with extensive notes about
the historical sources used for this story and why he interpreted
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-- About
the Author
Frederic Hunter served as a foreign service
officer of the United States Information Service in Brussels,
Belgium, and at Coquilhatville and Bukavu in the ex-Belgian
Congo. He covered sub-Saharan Africa as a foreign correspondent
for The Christian Science Monitor. Later he wrote screenplays
for film and television, including Lincoln and the
War Within for PBS, which triggered his interest in
the Lincoln courtship. His writings include The
Hemingway Play and Africa, Africa!, a collection of
fifteen stories. He and his wife Donanne have a website
spanning fifty years of experiences in Africa.
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