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