Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War eBook

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Start of eBook	1
I. THE CHILD OF THE FOREST	1
II THE MYSTERIOUS YOUTH	6
III. A VILLAGE LEADER	10
IV. REVELATIONS	15
V. PROSPERITY	23
VI. UNSATISFYING RECOGNITION	28
VII. THE SECOND START	32
VIII. A RETURN TO POLITICS	37
IX. THE LITERARY STATESMAN	43
X. THE DARK HORSE	48
XI. SECESSION	51
XII. THE CRISIS	57
XIII. ECLIPSE	61
XIV. THE STRANGE NEW MAN	65
XV. PRESIDENT AND PREMIER	73
XVI “ON TO RICHMOND!”	89
XVII. DEFINING THE ISSUE	93
XVIII. THE JACOBIN CLUB	100
XIX. THE JACOBINS BECOME INQUISITORS	107
XX. IS CONGRESS THE PRESIDENT’S MASTER?	114
XXI. THE STRUGGLE TO CONTROL THE ARMY	119
XXII. LINCOLN EMERGES	132
XXIII. THE MYSTICAL STATESMAN	139
XXIV. GAMBLING IN GENERALS	144
XXV. A WAR BEHIND THE SCENES	150
XXVI. THE DICTATOR, THE MARPLOT AND THE LITTLE MEN	159
XXVII. THE TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE	168
XXVIII. APPARENT ASCENDENCY	178
XXIX. CATASTROPHE	181
XXX. THE PRESIDENT VERSUS THE VINDICTIVES	188
XXXI A MENACING PAUSE	190
XXXII. THE AUGUST CONSPIRACY	198
XXXIII. THE RALLY TO THE PRESIDENT	203
XXXIV. “FATHER ABRAHAM”	209
XXXV. THE MASTER OF THE MOMENT	212
XXXVI. PREPARING A DIFFERENT WAR	218
XXXVII. FATE INTERPOSES	223
THE END	227
NOTES	230
XII. THE CRISIS	236

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