i very much respect my colleagues, jean baker has written about the narcissism of mary lincoln. jason emerson has written about his diagnosis exactly and we have new work coming out about concussions and what head trauma and injury can do. i very much welcome that speculation, but i myself try to contextualize and i believe i was ironically most moved to believe she was not bipolar but had medication problems and psychological problems, especially when i read the wonderful letters that jason emmerson dug up that were written while she was incarcerated confined by her son to an asylum during that very difficult period following the tenth anniversary of her husband's death. >> absolutely not. >> would you like to ask a question? >> mel burger, boston, mass. >> don't forget us over here. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry. >> you should -- >> i must go to the left first mel. do you mind? i'll take this and come right back to you. yes, sir, i'm sorry. >> i'm jim mcgrath, i'm from buffalo, new york. >> hi, jim. sorry. >> grover cleveland territory and fannie. >> quite a bit of gossip around gro

i very much respect my colleagues, jean baker has written about the narcissism of mary lincoln. jason emerson has written about his diagnosis exactly and we have new work coming out about concussions and what head trauma and injury can do. i very much welcome that speculation, but i myself try to contextualize and i believe i was ironically most moved to believe she was not bipolar but had medication problems and psychological problems, especially when i read the wonderful letters that jason emmerson dug up that were written while she was incarcerated confined by her son to an asylum during that very difficult period following the tenth anniversary of her husband's death. >> absolutely not. >> would you like to ask a question? >> mel burger, boston, mass. >> don't forget us over here. >> i'm sorry, i'm sorry. >> you should -- >> i must go to the left first mel. do you mind? i'll take this and come right back to you. yes, sir, i'm sorry. >> i'm jim mcgrath, i'm from buffalo, new york. >> hi, jim. sorry. >> grover cleveland territory and fannie. >> quite a bit of gossip around gro

c-span: jean h. baker, author of "the stevensons: a biography of an american family," what's the scope of this book? >> guest: well, it's pretty broad and it's a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. and it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. and that's adlai ewing stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. it took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc., and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. c-span: did you ever meet any of them? >> guest: yes, i did. the most prominent stevensons that i met were adlai stevenson ii's sister, that's buffie stevenson ives who was really an indomitable figure and she's the one i think who was partially responsible for the fact that the stevenson archive now numbers about 700 boxes of material. i guess every family ha

he in "the stevensons" jean baker traces former u.s. senator from illinois adlai stevenson the third family history. ms. baker describes the family