Abe, Abraham Lincoln in His Times by Reynolds, David S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Also by David S. Reynolds Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents A Note on the Text Preface 1. The Lincoln Tree

Puritans and Cavaliers Cultural Genealogy Cultural Migration The Quaker Bond

2. Child of the Frontier

Abe’s Father as Frontier Guide The Angel Mother and Frontier Religion Family Relations and Teenage Romances in Indiana

3. Foundations of Presidential Character

Frontier Schools and Formative Books Discovering the Founders Self-Making and Virtue

4. The Powers of Nature

Human and Nonhuman Ring-Tailed Roarers and Female Screamers The Frontier Carnival

5. The School of Events

Both Sides Now Debating and Reflecting Life Lessons Politics and Geography The Cultural Work of Reason

6. Turmoil and Sensations

The Throes of Romance Sensationalism and Sarcasm Fighting Over Party and Class The Victory Over Dark Reform Regaining Equilibrium Unconventional Domesticity

7. Law and Culture

An Unlawerly Lawyer Lessons of the Law Circuit He Heard America Singing Soaring High Expanding with the Law Seeing Both Sides

8. Economy and Politics

Seeking Shelter from Economic Storms The Battle for Young America Tiptoeing Around Slavery A Watchful Politician The Congressional Cauldron “Is the Center Nothing?”

9. Antislavery Emergence

Lessons from Stowe, Lessons from Death Humanity, Slavery, and Politics Sensationalism and the Higher Law “My First Impulse Would Be to Free All the Slaves”

10. The Isms and the Woolly Horse

Woolly Horse, Woolly Party Navigating the Isms Give ’em Jessie!

11. The Springfield Family

Family Politics Home Work Lincoln, Springfield’s Blacks, and the Underground Railroad Improving Springfield, Improving Politics

12. The House Divided and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Puritan Lessons The Naked Question, the Central Idea Fighting the Little Giant “It Is the Eternal Struggle Between These Two Principles—right and Wrong—throughout the World”

13. Blondin, Barnum, and B’hoys

Balanced Over the Falls Barnum, Spectacle, and the 1860 Campaign The 1860 Presidential Campaign and the Reign of Image Conquering Young America

14. Challenging Secession

Testing, Hedging, and Performing “We Must Not Be Enemies” Remember Ellsworth!

15. The Higher Laws of War

16. The Lincoln White House

Lady President Mary’s Many Roles Parenting and Loss The Lincolns in the Bardo

17. “O Captain!”

Controlling the Cabinet Financing the War Democratizing College Education and Land Improvement The Great Father and His Children Shoddy

18. Commander in Chief

Weapons Worries Political Generals and West Pointers Halleck, Lieber, and the Turn to Hard War

19. Forging Cultural Unity

Tapping into the Religious Spirit Proclaiming God, Advancing Unity Santa Claus Lincoln All the World’s a Stage Feeling the Popular Pulse Jester in Chief

20. Politics, Race, and the Culture Wars

Varieties of Civil War Racism Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby to the Rescue African Americans as Soldiers and Humans His Soul Was Marching On

21. Democratic Eloquence

The Gettysburg Address in Context The Nation, Succinctly Defined The Military Buildup to the Second Inaugural Facing Two Nations A Sacred Effort

22. Union, Tragedy, and Legacy

Lincoln’s Last Day The Assassin and the President The Climax Aftermath and Legacy

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes Illustration Credits Index About the Author