Abraham Lincoln : a life

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Introduction = xi
• 1. "I Have Seen a Good Deal of the Back Side of This World" : Childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816) = 1
• 2. "I Used to be a Slave" : Boyhood and Adolescence in Indiana (1816-1830) = 15
• 3. "Separated from His Father, He Studied English Grammar" : New Salem (1831-1834) = 31
• 4. "A Napoleon of Astuteness and Political Finesse" : Frontier Legislator (1834-1837) = 49
• 5. "We Must Fight the Devil With Fire" : Slasher-Gaff Politico in Springfield (1837-1841) = 68
• 6. "It Would Just Kill Me to Marry Mary Todd" : Courtship and Marriage (1840-1842) = 86
• 7. "I Have Got the Preacher by the Balls" : Pursuing a Seat in Congress (1843-1847) = 111
• 8. "A Strong but Judicious Enemy to Slavery" : Congressman Lincoln (1847-1849) = 128
• 9. "I Was Losing Interest in Politics and Went to the Practice of Law with Greater Earnestness Than Ever Before" : Mid-Life Crisis (1849-1854) = 147
• 10. "Aroused As He Had Never Been Before" : Reentering Politics (1854-1855) = 169
• 11. "Unite with Us, and Help Us to Triumph" : Building the Illinois Republican Party (1855-1857) = 187
• 12. "A House Divided" : Lincoln vs. Douglas (1857-1858) = 203
• 13. "A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath" : The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) = 219
• 14. That Presidential Grub Gnaws Deep : Pursuing the Republican Nomination (1859-1860) = 235
• 15. "The Most Available Presidential Candidate for Unadulterated Republicans" : The Chicago Convention (May 1860) = 253
• 16. "I Have Been Elected Mainly on the Cry 'Honest Old Abe'" : The Presidential Campaign (May-November 1860) = 261
• 17. "I Will Suffer Death Before I Will Consent to Any Concession or Compromise" : President-elect in Springfield (1860-1861) = 273
• 18. "What If I Appoint Cameron, Whose Very Name Stinks in the Nostrils of the People for His Corruption?" : Cabinet-Making in Springfield (1860-1861) = 282
• 19. "The Man Does Not Live Who Is More Devoted to Peace Than I Am, But It May Be Necessary to Put the Foot Down Firmly" : From Springfield to Washington (February 11-22, 1861) = 296
• 20. "I Am Now Going To Be Master" : Inauguration (February 23-March 4, 1861) = 313
• 21. "A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House, That He Can't Stop to Put Out the Fire that is Burning in the Other" : Distributing Patronage (March-April 1861) = 325
• 22. "You Can Have No Conflict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors" : The Fort Sumter Crisis (March-April 1861) = 338
• 23. "I Intend to Give Blows" : The Hundred Days (April-July 1861) = 354
• 24. Sitzkrieg : The Phony War (August 1861-January 1862) = 377
• 25. "This Damned Old House" : The Lincoln Family in the Executive Mansion = 397
• 26. "I Expect to Maintain This Contest Until Successful, or Till I Die, or Am Conquered, or My Term Expires, or Congress or the Country Forsakes Me" : From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond (January-July, 1862) = 407
• 27. "The Hour Comes for Dealing with Slavery" : Playing the Last Trump Card (January-July 1862) = 429
• 28. "Would You Prosecute the War with Elder-Stalk Squirts, Charged with Rose Water?" : The Soft War Turns Hard (July-September 1862) = 443
• 29. "I Am Not a Bold Man, But I Have the Knack of Sticking to My Promises!" : The Emancipation Proclamation (September-December 1862) = 461
• 30. "Go Forward, and Give Us Victories" : From the Mud March to Gettysburg (January-July 1863) = 484
• 31. "The Signs Look Better" : Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July-November 1863) = 502
• 32. "I Hope to Stand Firm Enough to Not Go Backward, and Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough to Wreck the Country's Cause" : Reconstruction and Renomination (November 1863-June 1864) = 519
• 33. "Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible" : The Grand Offensive (May-August 1864) = 538
• 34. "The Wisest Radical of All" : Reelection (September-November 1864) = 555
• 35. "Let the Thing Be Pressed" : Victory at Last (November 1864-April 8, 1865) = 578
• 36. "This War Is Eating My Life Out; I Have a Strong Impression That I Shall Not Live to See the End" : (April 9-15, 1865) = 613
• Abbreviatiokns = 627
• Notes = 631
• Index = 681