(PRWEB) January 19, 2013

Move over Michelle Obama, Mary Todd Lincoln’s back. If you thought you were a fashionista, you’ve got nothing on Mary Lincoln, who was quite a clothes horse herself, and perhaps the first shopaholic in the White House. As Autumn Stephens says, “Today, maniacal Mary Lincoln would be the self-dramatizing star of some Beltway twelve-step program, or popping Prozac like miniature petit fours, or holding an Oprah audience in thrall with tales of how an ungrateful nation did her wrong.”

Feisty First Ladies

And Other Unforgettable White House Women

By Autumn Stephens

Part irreverant portrait gallery, part exuberant expos