01818cam a2200361 i 4500 382323000 TxAuBib 20190516120000.0 180618s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018028814 9781616208479 hardcover $27.95 1616208473 hardcover $27.95 (OCoLC)1041205692 TxAuBib rda Bayard, Louis,. Courting Mr. Lincoln : a novel / Louis Bayard. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. 379 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a young, marriageable Mary Todd and Lincoln's best friend, Joshua Speed. When sparky and independent Mary Todd arrives in Springfield, Illinois, in the 1840s to live with her sister, who is determined to find Mary a husband, she is astonished to find herself drawn to an awkward, melancholic lawyer with a gift for oratory. The two share ambition, an obsession with politics--and a need to be suitably married off. Always at Lincoln's side, however, is the charming Joshua Speed, a shopkeeper who became his mentor in society, loyal friend, roommate--and possible lover. 20190516. Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 Fiction. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Fiction. Speed, Joshua F (Joshua Fry), 1814-1882 Fiction. Courtship Fiction. Springfield (Ill.) History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. T3S