En 1875, Robert Todd Lincoln a causé sa mère, Mary Todd Lincoln, à être engagée dans un asile d'aliénés. Basé sur des documents manuscrits récemment découverts, ce livre cherche à expliquer comment et pourquoi.
Dans ces documents marqués par Robert Todd Lincoln comme le « MTL Insanity File » existe le seul enregistrement définitif de l'histoire tragique du procès de folie de Mary Todd Lincoln. Le livre qui résulte de ces lettres et documents aborde plusieurs domaines de controverse dans la vie de la veuve d'Abraham Lincoln : l'étendue de sa maladie, l'équité de son procès, et les motifs de ceux qui l'ont fait s'engager pour un traitement. Les questions connexes comprennent le statut des femmes en vertu de la loi ainsi que le traitement juridique et médical de la folie.
Spéculant sur les raisons de son état mental, les auteurs notent que Mme Lincoln a subi une quantité extraordinaire de tragédie en relativement quelques années. Trois de ses quatre fils sont morts très jeunes, et Abraham Lincoln a été assassiné. Après la mort de son fils Willie, elle a maintenu un deuil sombre et rigoureux pendant près de trois ans, incitant le président à l'avertir qu'un malheur excessif pourrait l'obliger à l'envoyer à « cette grande maison blanche sur la colline là-bas », l'hôpital gouvernemental pour les fous.
Mme Lincoln a également souffert d'anxiété au sujet de l'argent, tracant une trajectoire financière exceptionnellement erratique. Elle avait passé somptueusement pendant la présidence de son mari et à sa mort s'est retrouvée profondément endettée. Elle avait acheté des troncs de rideaux pour accrocher sur des fenêtres fantômes. 84 paires de gants pour enfants en moins d'un mois et 3 200 $ de bijoux dans les trois mois précédant l'assassinat de Lincoln. Elle a suivi le même cours erratique pour le reste de sa vie, créant en elle-même une énorme anxiété. Elle craignait parfois que les gens essayaient de la tuer, et en 1873, elle a dit à son médecin qu'un esprit indien enlevait les fils de ses yeux et des os de ses joues.
Son fils a rassemblé une armée d'avocats et d'experts médicaux qui juraient devant le tribunal que Mme Lincoln était folle. Le jury l'a trouvée folle et avait besoin d'un traitement dans un asile. Que le verdict soit correct ou non, le procès a rendu Mary Lincoln désespérée. Dans les heures suivant le verdict, elle tentait de se suicider. Dans quelques mois, elle envisagerait un meurtre. Depuis lors, chaque aspect du procès a été critiqué, de l'avocat de la défense aux lois en vigueur à l'époque. Neely et McMurtry s'occupent du procès, de l'engagement de Mary Todd Lincoln, de sa libération et de son deuxième procès. Une annexe comprend des lettres et des fragments de Mme Lincoln du « Insanity File ». Le livre est illustré par 25 photographies.
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Mark E. Neely, Jr., professor of history at Saint Louis University, is the author of The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties.
R. Gerald McMurtry headed the department of Lincolniana at Lincoln Memorial University and was editor of the Lincoln Herald from 1937 to 1956, when he became director of the Lincoln National Life Foundation (now the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum).
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