Contents

Editor’s Note

Prologue: The Greatness of Lincoln

1. Humble Beginnings

2. The Making of a Statesman

3. Lincoln and the Union

4. Lincoln and Emancipation

5. Lincoln and Total War

6. Politics in Wartime

7. Rising Above the Fray: Second Term

8. Victory and Death

Epilogue: The Nation Lincoln Made

Notes

Milestones

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index