Trials of Mrs. Lincoln

Based on family documents, this account tells how the President'scap P when referring to specific U.S. president. aa widow was judged insane by a jury in an action brought by her son, Robert; after her release from a mental institution, she spent her final years of obscurity in Europe. ``The author sees Mrs. Lincoln as a much-maligned woman whose eccentric and reclusive behavior rendered her a burden to her spoiled son and an embarrassment to those preserving Lincoln's memory,'' said PW. (Apr.)