Table of Contents
Map List and Illustration Credits ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 "Elements of a Statesman": 1801-1830 7
Chapter 2 "Who Is William H. Seward?": 1831-1838 32
Chapter 3 "A Higher Standard of Social Perfection": 1839-1842 59
Chapter 4 "You and I Can and Must Do It": 1843-1849 86
Chapter 5 "A Higher Law Than the Constitution": 1849-1854 116
Chapter 6 "Foremost Statesman of the Whole North": 1854-1856 144
Chapter 7 "An Irrepressible Conflict": 1857-1859 165
Chapter 8 "Lincoln Nominated Third Ballot": 1860 182
Chapter 9 "Save the Union in My Own Way": November 1860-March 1861 210
Chapter 10 "I Must Do It": March-April 1861 252
Chapter 11 "Through the Fires of Tophet": 1861 282
Chapter 12 "Remove Him!": 1862 324
Chapter 13 "Ask Not Whether the Enemy Is Near": 1863 361
Chapter 14 "Firm and Hopeful": 1864 390
Chapter 15 "I Am Not Dead": 1865 417
Chapter 16 "Political Apostasy": 1866 453
Chapter 17 "Let Us Make the Treaty Tonight": 1867 478
Chapter 18 "I'll See You Damned First": 1868-1869 506
Chapter 19 "Nothing Remained… But to Keep in Motion 1869-1872 530
Acknowledgments 549
Notes 551
Index 661