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Index
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
ABOUT THIS BOOK
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION: HONEST ABE AMONG THE RULERS
1. A Solemn Oath Registered in Heaven
2. Act Well Your Part, There All the Honor Lies
3. On Mastering the Situation: The Drama of Sumter
4. On Not Mastering the Situation: The Comedy of the Powhatan
5. Days of Choices: Two April Sundays
6. Realism Right at the Border
7. The Moral Meaning of the Union and the War
8. Bull Run and Other Defeats: Lincoln’s Resolve
9. On Holding McClellan’s Horse
10. The Trent and a Decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind
11. Too Vast for Malicious Dealing
PART TWO
A SECOND INTRODUCTION: LINCOLN’S NATION AMONG THE NATIONS
12. I Felt It My Duty to Refuse
13. In Giving Freedom to the Slave, We Assure Freedom to the Free
14. The Prompt Vindication of His Honor
15. And the Promise Being Made, Must Be Kept
16. The Benign Prerogative to Pardon Unfortunate Guilt
17. Must I Shoot a Simple Soldier Boy?
18. A Hard War Without Hatred
19. Temptation in August
20. The Almighty Has His Own Purposes
A CONCLUSION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AMONG THE IMMORTALS
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY WILLIAM LEE MILLER
COPYRIGHT
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