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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Personal Background and Early Life
1. What was Lincoln’s middle name?
2. The truth about Lincoln’s parents and siblings
3. The proximity of Lincoln’s and Jefferson Davis’s birthplaces
4. Was Lincoln really born in a log cabin?
5. Was Lincoln’s mother illegitimate?
6. How Lincoln repeatedly escaped death as a child
7. Was Lincoln’s family really poor?
8. Lincoln’s real relationship with his father
9. Lincoln’s relationship with his “angel mother” and his stepmother
10. “The wedding-bed prank”
11. The question of Lincoln’s education
12. “Abe the Rail-Splitter”: Was he really a hard-working farmhand?
13. The move to New Salem, Illinois
14. Lincoln’s career as a Mississippi River flatboatman
15. Why did Lincoln’s first run for the Illinois State Legislature fail?
16. Why did Lincoln’s dry-goods store fail?
17. Abe Lincoln: New Salem postmaster
18. Lincoln’s (brief ) military “career”
19. Abe Lincoln: Surveyor
20. Why was Lincoln’s second run for the Illinois State Legislature successful?
21. Was Lincoln a good state legislator?
22. What did it mean to “read law” in a law office?
23. Ann Rutledge: The great love of Lincoln’s life?
24. The death of Ann Rutledge: Proof of Lincoln’s depressive personality?
25. “Dueling” with James Shields
26. Lincoln’s personal relationships
Part 2: The Middle Years: Lincoln in Springfield 53
27. Re-election to the Illinois State Legislature
28. What was the “Long Nine”?
29. What firm did Lincoln first work for as a lawyer?
30. What did it mean to be a “circuit rider” on the Illinois State Court?
31. Judge Lincoln?
32. Four jobs at one time
33. The real reasons for Lincoln’s move to Springfield
34. Who was the “other Mary” in Lincoln’s life?
35. How Lincoln got Mary Todd to marry him
36. Was Lincoln’s marriage to Mary Todd a happy one?
37. Was Mary Todd Lincoln crazy?
38. The Lincolns’ early domestic life
39. How many homes did Lincoln own in his lifetime?
40. 1846: Lincoln’s election to the U.S. House of Representatives
41. Was the greatest war president in American history actually antiwar?
42. Lincoln’s lodgings on the site of the Library of Congress
43. Congressional “spot resolutions”
44. Lincoln’s career as a U.S. congressman
45. Campaign work for Zachary Taylor
46. What did Lincoln think about term limits?
47. Refusing governorship of the Oregon Territory
48. Temporary political retirement: Work as a successful trial lawyer
49. What invention did Lincoln register with the U.S. Patent Office?
50. The “chicken-bone case”
51. The Compromise of 1850
52. Was Lincoln an abolitionist or not?
53. Lincoln’s shifting views on abolitionism
54. Did Lincoln own slaves?
55. How the Kansas-Nebraska Act brought Lincoln back into politics
56. The Senate election of 1854
57. The Dred Scott decision: The case that galvanized the Republican Party
58. Distrust for the Supreme Court spurs Lincoln’s abolitionism
Part 3: Lincoln and the U.S. Presidency
59. What was Lincoln’s best speech and why isn’t there a transcript?
60. How original was the “house divided” speech?
61. Lincoln v. Douglas: The first debate and how it framed the conflict
62. Lincoln v. Douglas: Lincoln’s response and the outcome of the debates
63. How did Lincoln lose the U.S. Senate race of 1858?
64. Did Lincoln have his eye on the presidency when he ran for the Senate?
65. “Stealing” the Republican nomination for the presidency
66. The election of 1860
67. Why did Lincoln grow his beard?
68. Lincoln’s remarks regarding secession and abolition while president-elect
69. Goats in the White House?
Part 4: Lincoln and the Civil War
70. December 1860: The South Carolinian secession crisis
71. Was there a plot to kill Lincoln before he took office in 1861?
72. March 1861: Lincoln takes office
73. Fort Sumter
74. “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”
75. Illegally jailing political dissenters?
76. Lincoln and his generals: Scott
77. Bull Run: Make way for a new commander
78. Lincoln and his generals: McClellan
79. Antietam
80. Fredericksburg
81. The Emancipation Proclamation
82. Which of Lincoln’s children died in the White House?
83. Gettysburg
84. Vicksburg: Lincoln finds his man
85. The man invited as an afterthought: Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
86. Did a sniper try to kill Lincoln in August 1864?
87. A strange twist of fate: The night John Wilkes Booth’s brother saved Lincoln’s son
88. “A Very Nearly Run Thing”?: The election of 1864
89. “The better angels of our nature”: The second inaugural address
90. Ultimate victory: Appomattox, April 1865
91. Ultimate defeat: Ford’s Theater, April 1865
Part 5: Comparisons and Contemporaries
92. Lincoln and Washington
93. Lincoln and Jefferson
94. Lincoln and Jackson
95. Lincoln and Buchanan
96. Lincoln and Clay
97. Lincoln and Douglas
98. Lincoln and Davis
Part 6: Lincoln and His Legacy
99. A nation in mourning: Lincoln’s immediate legacy
100. Who tried to steal Lincoln’s body?
101. The long-term legacy of Abraham Lincoln
Works Consulted
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