Jean Harvey Baker

Jean Harvey Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history.  She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Jean Harvey Baker

Jean Harvey Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history.  She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Books by Jean Harvey Baker

  • The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family

    Jean Harvey Baker

    Paperback, 1997

    "[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."--Richard Norton Smith, ...
  • Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

    Jean Harvey Baker

    Paperback, 2008

    "A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling." —New York Times
  • Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography

    Jean Harvey Baker

    E Book, 2008

    "A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling." —New York Times