Lincoln

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by  David Herbert Donald

Cover Page: 1
Dedication Page: 5
Epigraph Page: 6
Maps Page: 7
Preface Page: 8
Chapter One: Annals of the Poor Page: 11
Chapter Two: A Piece of Floating Driftwood Page: 20
Chapter Three: Cold, Calculating, Unimpassioned Reason Page: 35
Chapter Four: Always a Whig Page: 49
Chapter Five: Lone Star of Illinois Page: 63
Chapter Six: At the Head of his Profession in This State Page: 74
Chapter Seven: There Are No Whigs Page: 83
Chapter Eight: A House Divided Page: 101
Chapter Nine: The Taste Is in My Mouth Page: 117
Chapter Ten: An Accidental Instrument Page: 130
Chapter Eleven: A People’s Contest Page: 148
Chapter Twelve: The Bottom Is Out of the Tub Page: 164
Chapter Thirteen: An Instrument in God’s Hands Page: 178
Chapter Fourteen: A Pumpkin in Each End of My Bag Page: 189
Chapter Fifteen: What Will the Country Say! Page: 204
Chapter Sixteen: A New Birth of Freedom Page: 218
Chapter Seventeen: The Greatest Question Ever Presented to Practical Statesmanship Page: 234
Chapter Eighteen: It Was Not Best to Swap Horses Page: 247
Chapter Nineteen: I Am Pretty Sure-Footed Page: 259
Chapter Twenty: With Charity for All Page: 273
Chapter Twenty-One: I Will Take Care of Myself Page: 287
Photographs Page: 299
Lincoln's Law Partners Page: 300
Lincoln's Political Advisers Page: 301
Rivals in the Great Debates of 1858 Page: 302
Two Cabinet Rivals Page: 303
Four Generals who Caused Lincoln Problems Page: 304
President Lincoln and His Sons Page: 305
Lincoln Receives a Delegation of Plains Indians Page: 306
Lincoln's Office in the White House Page: 307
Lincoln on McClellan Page: 308
Three Republican Radicals who Pushed Lincoln Toward Emancipation Page: 309
Two Views of the Emancipation Proclimation Page: 310
The Presidential Campaign of 1864 Page: 311
Lincoln Enters the City of Richmond, April 4, 1865 Page: 312
Author Bio Page: 314
Sources and Notes Page: 317
Index Page: 381
Footnotes Page: 397
Preface Page: 397
Note 1 Page: 397
Copyright Page: 398