23 April 2009
Recently, biographer Catherine Clinton, author of Mrs. Lincoln: A Life, joined CFIF‘s Renee Giachino to discuss her book, the comparisons between Mrs. Lincoln and her modern-day successors, and how press scrutiny impacts America‘s impression of our first ladies.
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