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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n##### This week, don’t miss a fresh look at Mary Todd Lincoln, the real story of Rome’s gladiators, and a narrative examination of the Murdaugh murders\n\nBy Jim Kelly\n\nMary Todd Lincoln has always been in need of a good publicist. She dressed comically, shopped too much, chased after spiritualists, and was forced into a mental institution by her son. Her latest claim to fame is as the title character of the Broadway comedy _Oh, Mary!,_ where she is depicted as a frustrated cabaret performer. In Lois Romano, she has found someone better than a publicist: a first-rate journalist who shows us the true Mary, complex for sure but invaluable to her husband’s career, a temperamental person who, despite tending to wounded soldiers during the war and suffering READ ON",
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