Preface 1(4)
Prologue 5(12)
Chapter 1 "A Frenzy Seized My Soul"
17(12)
Chapter 2 One Bold Stroke
29(7)
Chapter 3 "Order! Order! Order!"
36(12)
Chapter 4 "That Demon Question"
48(9)
Chapter 5 "Ultima Thule"
57(15)
Chapter 6 Old Harry
72(13)
Chapter 7 "We Have Another Epidemic"
85(13)
Chapter 8 The City of Magnificent Intentions
98(16)
Chapter 9 Deadlock
114(9)
Chapter 10 The Godlike Daniel
123(11)
Chapter 11 "A Great Soul on Fire"
134(12)
Chapter 12 "Wounded Eagle"
146(13)
Chapter 13 "Secession! Peaceable Secession!"
159(14)
Chapter 14 "A Higher Law"
173(9)
Chapter 15 "God Deliver Me from Such Friends"
182(9)
Chapter 16 "He Is Not Dead, Sir"
191(16)
Chapter 17 "Let the Assassin Fire!"
207(16)
Chapter 18 Filibusters
223(16)
Chapter 19 "A Legislative Saturnalia"
239(11)
Chapter 20 A Pact with the Devil
250(17)
Chapter 21 "War, Open War"
267(12)
Chapter 22 "All Is Paralysis"
279(10)
Chapter 23 The Omnibus Overturned
289(14)
Chapter 24 "A Steam Engine in Britches"
303(14)
Chapter 25 "Break Your Masters' Locks"
317(14)
Chapter 26 "It Is Time We Should Act"
331(16)
Chapter 27 Triumphs
347(11)
Chapter 28 "A Scandalous Outrage"
358(12)
Epilogue: The Reckoning 370(29)
Acknowledgments 399(4)
Notes 403(42)
Selected Bibliography 445(20)
Index 465