Introduction 1Chapter 1 "He Called Me Yankee," 1808-26 7Chapter 2 "Metropolis of the Nation," 1826-30 21Chapter 3 "First in Cincinnati," 1830-35 41Chapter 4 "Some Great Scheme," 1836-41 61Chapter 5 "To Limit and Localize … Slavery," 1841-48 87Chapter 6 "Ambitious as Julius Caesar," 1848-49 127Chapter 7 "Freedom Is National," 1849-50 143Chapter 8 "The Question Is Not Settled," 1850-53 169Chapter 9 "The Nebraska Iniquity," 1854 191Chapter 10 "Our Victory Is Glorious," 1855 209Chapter 11 "Avowed and Determined," 1856-57 229Chapter 12 "Your Noble Lincoln," 1858-59 261Chapter 13 "The Interests of the Cause," 1860 289Chapter 14 "Inauguration First, Adjustment Afterwards," 1860-61 311Chapter 15 "We Have the War upon Us," 1861 329Chapter 16 "Slavery Must Go," Early 1862 369Chapter 17 "A New Era," Late 1862 397Chapter 18 "My Fixed Faith," Early 1863 429Chapter 19 "Bringing to a Second Birth This Same Mighty Nation," Late 1863 449Chapter 20 "The Salmon Is a Queer Fish," Early 1864 471Chapter 21 "So Help Me God," Late 1864 493Chapter 22 "Universal Suffrage," 1864-65 511Chapter 23 "The Most Dangerous Man," 1866-67 543Chapter 24 "Mad with the Presidential Fever," 1868 571Chapter 25 "Indestructible Union … Indestructible States," 1869-70 601Chapter 26 "Quite Content," 1871-73 627Conclusion 651Acknowledgments 661Notes 663Illustration Credits 799Index 801