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Index
Cover
Also by Ron Chernow
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Prelude: The Pilot House
Part One: Afloat
Chapter One: Loveless Marriage
Chapter Two: A Wild and Mischievous Boy
Chapter Three: Printer’s Devil
Chapter Four: “Darling Existence”
Chapter Five: “A Ragged and Dirty Bunch”
Chapter Six: “The Most Lovable Scamp”
Chapter Seven: “Heaven on the Half Shell”
Chapter Eight: “Land of Indolence and Dreams”
Chapter Nine: “Grave of a Blood Relation”
Chapter Ten: A Branch of Hell
Chapter Eleven: “My Honored ‘Sister’ ”
Chapter Twelve: Wedding Present
Part Two: Floodtide
Chapter Thirteen: Church of the Holy Speculators
Chapter Fourteen: Mississippi Steamboat and a Cuckoo Clock
Chapter Fifteen: Chartering a Comet to Mars
Chapter Sixteen: “Invertebrate Without a Country”
Chapter Seventeen: Toast to the Babies
Chapter Eighteen: “Inspired Bugger of a Machine”
Chapter Nineteen: “Hallelujah Jennings”
Chapter Twenty: Twins of Genius
Chapter Twenty-One: “A Sound Heart & a Deformed Conscience”
Chapter Twenty-Two: Pure Mugwump
Chapter Twenty-Three: Reparation Due to Every Black Man
Chapter Twenty-Four: “No Pockets in the Armor”
Chapter Twenty-Five: “The Deriding of Shams”
Chapter Twenty-Six: Death and Delusion
Chapter Twenty-Seven: “One of the Vanderbilt Gang”
Part Three: Rapids
Chapter Twenty-Eight: “Paradise of the Rheumatics”
Chapter Twenty-Nine: “A Lady Above Reproach”
Chapter Thirty: “Boss Machine of the World”
Chapter Thirty-One: “Too Much of a Human Being”
Chapter Thirty-Two: “Paris the Damnable”
Chapter Thirty-Three: “ ‘Colossal’ Is a Tame Word for Him”
Chapter Thirty-Four: “Clown of the Sea”
Chapter Thirty-Five: “Circumnavigation of This Great Globe”
Chapter Thirty-Six: “The Only Sad Voyage”
Chapter Thirty-Seven: “A Book Written in Blood & Tears”
Chapter Thirty-Eight: “Letters to Satan”
Chapter Thirty-Nine: “Stirring Times in Austria”
Chapter Forty: “The European Edison”
Chapter Forty-One: Dream Self
Chapter Forty-Two: “A Hundred Capering Clowns”
Chapter Forty-Three: “The Bastard Human Race”
Part Four: Whirlpool
Chapter Forty-Four: “The Ancient Mariner”
Chapter Forty-Five: The Anti-Doughnut Party
Chapter Forty-Six: “The United States of Lyncherdom”
Chapter Forty-Seven: “Magnificent Panorama of the Mississippi”
Chapter Forty-Eight: “Spirit of a Steam Engine”
Chapter Forty-Nine: Divine Healing
Chapter Fifty: The Dread Cavalcade of Death
Chapter Fifty-One: “The War Prayer”
Chapter Fifty-Two: “An Artist in Morals and Ink”
Chapter Fifty-Three: “The Swindle of Life”
Chapter Fifty-Four: Pier 70
Chapter Fifty-Five: Angelfish
Chapter Fifty-Six: A Fan and a Halo
Chapter Fifty-Seven: Wuthering Heights
Part Five: Shipwreck
Chapter Fifty-Eight: Man in the White Clothes
Chapter Fifty-Nine: “A Real American College Boy”
Chapter Sixty: “All the Wonders That Are Occurring”
Chapter Sixty-One: A Holiday from Life’s Woes
Chapter Sixty-Two: Innocence at Home
Chapter Sixty-Three: “Mark Twain’s Daughter”
Chapter Sixty-Four: The Death of Tammany
Chapter Sixty-Five: “An Insane Idea”
Chapter Sixty-Six: Grandpa Twain
Chapter Sixty-Seven: Letters from the Earth
Chapter Sixty-Eight: “An Old Bird of Paradise”
Chapter Sixty-Nine: Halley’s Comet
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author
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