Two Miserable Presidents by Sheinkin, Steve -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Table of Contents How to Rip a Country Apart

Stop That Cane! Step 1: Plant Cotton Step 2: Grow Apart Step 3: Keep Your Balance Step 4: Fight Slavery Step 5: Build a Railroad Step 6: Get More Land Step 7: Try to Compromise Step 8: Chase Fugitives Step 9: Write Books Step 10: Divide Nebraska Step 11: Race to Kansas Step 12: Insult Senators Step 13: Hit Him Again!

John Brown Lights the Fuse

Blood Flows in Kansas Dred Scott Denied Senator Lincoln? A Brief Word About Political Parties Long Abe vs. the Little Giant The Return of John Brown No More Compromise! Fire-Eaters Scorch the Little Giant Meanwhile, in Chicago … A Four-Way Race to Ruin

Abe Lincoln’s Troublesome Victory

The Trouble with Lincoln The Last President? Davis Is Disappointed A Long Way to Washington President, Finally Showdown at Fort Sumter The First Shots Brother Against Brother? Off to War Lee Makes His Choice Now What, Lincoln? The Wild Rose of Washington Picnic at Bull Run

This Is Going to Be Serious

Confusion on the Battlefield Thomas Gets a Nickname Little Mac Takes Command Stuck in Washington Two Soldiers: Frank and Harry Attack of the Floating Barn Clash of the Ironclads From “Useless” Grant … … to “Unconditional Surrender” Grant Time to See the Elephant The Shiloh Surprise Into the Hornets’ Nest Lick ’Em Tomorrow

Two Miserable Presidents

Miserable in Washington, D.C. Miserable in Richmond Jackson’s Distraction “La Belle Rebelle” Whenever You’re Ready, George Seven Days with Granny Lee What About Slavery? Robert Smalls’s Dash to Freedom Lincoln Is Convinced Lee’s Hungry Wolves Who Dropped the Cigars? Into the Awful Tornado Mac vs. Lincoln The Time Has Come

Johnny Reb vs. Billy Yank

Bob’s Half Haircut Hungry All the Time Almost Time for War Burnside Blows It Oh, Those Men! Worse Than Bullets Fighting Joe’s Turn Lee Throws Out the Textbook Another Union Disaster Jackson Crosses the River What Will the Country Say! The Road to Gettysburg

The Second-Biggest Fourth of July

Welcome to the North Meanwhile, on the Mississippi They’ll Fight All Right Where Are Those Shoes? School’s Out! Gettysburg: July 1 Gettysburg: July 2 Still No Winner Life Under Vicksburg. Gettysburg: July 3 Pickett Leads the Charge The Second-Biggest Fourth of July

Can Anyone Win This War?

They’re Getting Away! We’ve All Got Troubles Riots in the South Riots in the North General Tubman in Action Soldiers for the Cause A Few Words at Gettysburg 10,000 Battles Helps to Be Lucky Miserable Prison Camps U.S. Grant and Son We Must Whip Them!

The Bloody Road to Richmond

Grant’s Pretty Simple Plan Once More into the Wilderness No Turning Back Spotsylvania Horrors June 3: I Was Killed The Ticking Clock Waiting for News “Deader Than Dead” Some Great Change Takes Place Election Day, 1864 Why the South Hates Sherman Lincoln Looks Ahead Empty Stomachs and Brave Hearts Waking from the Nightmare Meeting at Appomattox 600,000 Plus One Stuck with Each Other

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