LINCOLN'S OTHER MARY (229 pp.)Olive Carruthers [with historical appendix by R. Gerald McMurtry)Ziff-Davis ($2.50).
The "man to match the mountains and the sea" was no match for women. Historians have made great matter of Abraham Lincoln's unhappy marriage to Mary Todd; romantics have told and retold his tragic connection with Ann Rutledge; and now Novelist Carruthers has expanded the few known facts about Lincoln's other big (170 Ibs.) moment, Mary Owens.
In doing so, she has wound fact into such a mess of taffy prose that there is no tasting the original flavor of the...
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