Table of Contents
Preface xi
1 The People with No Name 1
2 Educations 21
3 The Science of Law 44
4 "I Am Your True Lover, John C. Calhoun" 61
5 "The Road That All Great Nations Have Trod" 83
6 "The Great Gun of the Party" 99
7 "Let Us Conquer Space" 123
8 Secretary of Improvement and Empire 151
9 "To the Western Confines of the Continent" 174
10 "I Am with the People, and Shall Remain So" 198
11 "The Impression, That I Acted Under the Force of Destiny" 218
12 "There Shall Be at Least One Free State" 253
13 "I Think, I See My Way Clearly on the Slave Question" 291
14 "It Is Our Thermopylae" 317
15 "Dangerous and Despotic Doctrines" 344
16 "The True and Perfect Voice of the People" 370
17 "Thou Art the Man" 412
18 "Ours Is the Government of the White Man" 440
19 The Pillar of Fire 477
Epilogue 525
Acknowledgments 547
Notes 551
Index 623