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Volume I.
Author's Note
1. I Have Seen a Good Deal of the Back Side of This World: Childhood in Kentucky (1809-1816)
2. I Used to Be a Slave: Boyhood and Adolescence in Indiana (1816-1830)
3. Separated from His Father, He Studied English Grammar: New Salem (1831-1834)
4. A Napoleon of Astuteness and Political Finesse: Frontier Legislator (1834-1837)
5. We Must Fight the Devil with Fire: Slasher-Gaff Politico in Springfield (1837-1841)
6. It Would Just Kill Me to Marry Mary Todd: Courtship and Marriage (1840-1842)
7. I Have Got the Preacher by the Balls: Pursuing a Seat in Congress (1843-1847)
8. A Strong but Judicious Enemy to Slavery: Congressman Lincoln (1847-1849)
9. I Was Losing Interest in Politics and Went to the Practice of the Law with Greater Earnestness Than Ever Before: Midlife Crisis (1849-1854)
10. Aroused as He Had Never Been Before: Reentering Politics (1854-1855)
11. Unite with Us, and Help Us to Triumph: Building the Illinois Republican Party (1855-1857)
12. A House Divided: Lincoln vs. Douglas (1857-1858)
13. A David Greater than the Democratic Goliath: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
14. That Presidential Grub Gnaws Deep: Pursuing the Republican Nomination (1859-1860)
15. The Most Available Presidential Candidate for Unadulterated Republicans: The Chicago Convention (May 1860)
16. I Have Been Elected Mainly on the Cry 'Honest Old Abe' : The Presidential Campaign (May-November 1860)
17. I Will Suffer Death Before I Will Consent to Any Concession or Compromise: President-elect in Springfield (1860-1861)
18. What If I Appoint Cameron, Whose Very Name Stinks in the Nostrils of the People for His Corruption?: Cabinet-Making in Springfield (1860-1861)
Notes
Index
Volume II.
19. The Man Does Not Live Who Is More Devoted to Peace Than I Am, But It May Be Necessary to Put the Foot Down Firmly: From Springfield to Washington (February 11-22, 1861)
20. I Am Now Going to Be Master: Inauguration (February 23-March 4, 1861)
21. A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House, That He Can't Stop to Put Out the Fire That Is Burning in the Other: Distributing Patronage (March-April 1861)
22. You Can Have No Conf lict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors: The Fort Sumter Crisis (March-April 1861)
23. I Intend to Give Blows: The Hundred Days (April-July 1861)
24. Sitzkrieg: The Phony War (August 1861-January 1862)
25 This Damned Old House: The Lincoln Family in the Executive Mansion
26. I Expect to Maintain This Contest Until Successful, or Till I Die, or Am Conquered, or My Term Expires, or Congress or the Country Forsakes Me: From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond (January-July 1862)
27. The Hour Comes for Dealing with Slavery: Playing the Last Trump Card (January-July 1862)
28. Would You Prosecute the War with Elder- Stalk Squirts, Charged with Rose Water?: The Soft War Turns Hard (July-September 1862)
29. I Am Not a Bold Man, But I Have the Knack of Sticking to My Promises!: The Emancipation Proclamation (September- December 1862)
30. Go Forward, and Give Us Victories: From the Mud March to Gettysburg (January-July 1863)
31. The Signs Look Better: Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July-November 1863)
32. I Hope to Stand Firm Enough to Not Go Backward, and Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough to Wreck the Country's Cause: Reconstruction and Renomination (November 1863-June 1864)
33. Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible: The Grand Offensive (May-August 1864)
34. The Wisest Radical of All: Reelection (September-November 1864)
35. Let the Thing Be Pressed: Victory at Last (November 1864- April 1865)
36. I Feel a Presentiment That I Shall Not Outlast the Rebellion. When It Is Over, My Work Will Be Done.: The Final Days (April 9-15, 1865)
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Notes
Index