Tag: Lois Romano

Promotional graphic for a Books & Books Coral Gables author event featuring the cover of An Inconvenient Widow by Lois Romano alongside headshots of Romano and Miami Herald humorist Dave Barry, who will join her in conversation about Mary Todd Lincoln’s contested historical legacy.
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A new biography revisits one of America’s most contested first ladies

 Gazette News Dept.  May 31, 2026  37 Comments

By Coral Gables Gazette staff History has been cruel to Mary Todd Lincoln. The received portrait — demanding, erratic, financially reckless, a burden to the president and an embarrassment to…

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