Contents
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1. "A Frenzy Seized My Soul"
Chapter 2. One Bold Stroke
Chapter 3. "Order! Order! Order!"
Chapter 4. "That Demon Question"
Chapter 5. "Ultima Thule"
Chapter 6. Old Harry
Chapter 7. "We Have Another Epidemic"
Chapter 8. The City of Magnificent Intentions
Chapter 9. Deadlock
Chapter 10. The Godlike Daniel
Chapter 11. "A Great Soul on Fire"
Chapter 12. "Wounded Eagle"
Chapter 13. "Secession! Peaceable Secession!"
Chapter 14. "A Higher Law"
Chapter 15. "God Deliver Me from Such Friends"
Chapter 16. "He Is Not Dead, Sir"
Chapter 17. "Let the Assassin Fire!"
Chapter 18. Filibusters
Chapter 19. "A Legislative Saturnalia"
Chapter 20. A Pact with the Devil
Chapter 21. "War, Open War"
Chapter 22. "All Is Paralysis"
Chapter 23. The Omnibus Overturned
Chapter 24. "A Steam Engine in Britches"
Chapter 25. "Break Your Masters' Locks"
Chapter 26. "It Is Time We Should Act"
Chapter 27. Triumphs
Chapter 28. "A Scandalous Outrage"
Epilogue: The Reckoning
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index