Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

INTRODUCTION

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“An Inestimable Jewel”: Lincoln’s America

CHAPTER 1

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“An Ambition that Knew No Rest”: Young Man on the Make

CHAPTER 2

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“The Sober, Industrious, Thriving ­People”: A Devoted Whig

CHAPTER 3

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“The True System”: The Genius of American Capitalism

CHAPTER 4

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“Our Fathers”: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Purpose of America

CHAPTER 5

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“The Great Empire”: Lincoln’s Vision Realized

CHAPTER 6

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“Work, Work, Work”: Recovering the Lincoln Ethic

Notes

Index

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