id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crln-7913	Eberhart, George M.	New Publications	2007	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1692	84	60	Of related interest is The Madness of Mary Lincoln, by Jason Emerson (255 pages, September 2007), which argues convincing- ly that Mary Todd Lincoln did indeed have mental illness severe enough to justify her commitment in 1875. Based on the discovery in 2005 of long-lost correspondence relating to her life and insanity, Emerson concludes that Mary Lincoln showed signs of bipolar disorder (manic depression) even before her husband was assassinated, an event that led to erratic and occasionally psychotic behav- ior, and that her son’s decision to institution- alize her came reluctantly, painfully, and as a last resort.	cache/crln-7913.pdf	txt/crln-7913.txt