Jean H. Baker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-393-02436-4
A revisionist's view of the maligned Mary Todd Lincoln, usually portrayed as a shrew of doubtful sanity, is offered by Goucher College history professor Baker (Affairs of Party, etc.) in this richly documented and sympathetic study. Mary, an...
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Jean H. Baker, Author W. W. Norton & Company $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03874-3
Cultivated, witty Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965)--Illinois governor, two-time Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. ambassador to the U.N.--is portrayed in this engrossing, often surprising revisionist biography as a moderate conservative (no
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Jean H. Baker. Hill and Wang, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9498-1
Best known as an advocate for spearheading the birth control movement, Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) was an often-polarizing figure whose life Baker (Mary Todd Lincoln), a historian at Goucher College, expertly parses. Margaret Higgins was one of 11...
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