Table of Contents

Title Page
Introduction
1 - Ascension—from Stony Batter to the Cabinet, 1791-1848
2 - Wheatland to the White House, 1849-1856
3 - The Buchanan Presidency—Theory and Practice
4 - Appeasing the South: The Final Months of the Buchanan Presidency
Afterword
Editor’s Note
ALSO BY JEAN H BAKER
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS SERIES
Notes
Milestones
Selected Bibliography
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright Page