Prologue Chosen 1(6)
PART ONE PROMISE
Chapter 1 The Scientific Spirit
7(11)
Chapter 2 Providence
18(12)
Chapter 3 "A Beam in Darkness"
30(18)
Chapter 4 God's Minute Man
48(10)
Chapter 5 Bleak Mountain
58(9)
PART TWO WAR
Chapter 6 Hand and Soul
67(8)
Chapter 7 Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes
75(10)
Chapter 8 Brains, Flesh, and Blood
85(13)
Chapter 9 Casus Belli
98(15)
Chapter 10 The Dark Dreams of Presidents
113(12)
Chapter 11 "A Desperate Deed"
125(10)
PART THREE FEAR
Chapter 12 "Thank God It Is All Over"
135(8)
Chapter 13 "It's True"
143(7)
Chapter 14 All Evil Consequences
150(13)
Chapter 15 Blood-Guilty
163(10)
PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC
Chapter 16 Neither Death nor Life
173(8)
Chapter 17 One Nation
181(10)
Chapter 18 "Keep Heart"
191(13)
Chapter 19 On a Mountaintop, Alone
204(11)
Chapter 20 Terror, Hope, and Despair
215(7)
Chapter 21 After All
222(8)
Chapter 22 All the Angels of the Universe
230(17)
Epilogue Forever and Forever More 247(14)
Acknowledgments 261(106)
Notes 367
Bibliography 313(12)
Illustration Credits 325(2)
Index 327