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