![]() ![]() The author sees husband and wife as halves of a highly workable partnership that brought great emotional sustenance and security to them both. Along with Mary Todd Lincoln, Martha Washington is the most familiar of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century First Ladies, and Fraser’s graceful, incisive portrait extends our knowledge of her. A member of a highly regarded British family of biographers and historians now treats us to a more specific aspect of Washington’s life in a fresh and highly informative view of Washington the husband. Ron Chernow’s magisterial Washington(Penguin, 2010) gave us an extremely well rounded portrait of our greatest national icon. ![]()
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