The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend
- ISBN-10
- 0252020111
- ISBN-13
- 9780252020117
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- John Evangelist Walsh
Description
In recent decades, the Ann Rutledge story has been treated as mythical rather than as an account of Abraham Lincoln's first but doomed love affair. Here the author restores Ann Rutledge to her rightful place in the historical record.
