Table of Contents
Part I: He Is Formed for a Statesman1. The Flame Is Kindled (17671778)
2. His Thoughts Are Always Running in a Serious Strain (17781780)
3. As Promising and Manly a Youth as Is in the World (17811785)
4. You Are Admitted, Adams (17851788)
5. Friend of the People (17881794)
6. I Shall Be Much Mistaken If He Is Not Soon Found at the Head of the Diplomatique Corps (17941795)
7. A Young Lady of Fine Parts Accomplishments (17951797)
8. President Adams' Political Telescope (17971801)
Part II: War and Peace
9. I Feel Strong Temptations to Plunge into Political Controversy (18011803)
10. Curse on the Stripling, How He Apes His Sire (18031804)
11. The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory (18041807)
12. If We Must Perish, Let It Be in Defense of Our Rights (18071809)
13. A Bull-Dog Among Spaniels (18091812)
14. Restoring the Peace of the World (18121814)
15. A Card of Invitation to a Dress Party at the Prince Regent's (18151817)
Part III: Territorial Expansion
16. A Line Straight to the Pacific Ocean (18171819)
17. The Bargain Between Freedom and Slavery Is Morally and Politically Vicious (18191820)
18. She Goes Not Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy (18201822)
19. If He Wishes for Peace with Me, He Must Hold Out the White Flag (18221812)
20. The Most Important Paper That Ever Went from My Hands (18221823)
21. Who Can Hold a Fire in His Hand by Thinking on the Frosty Caucasus? (18231824)
22. I Tread on Coals (18241825)
Part IV: Internal Improvement
23. The Spirit of Improvement (1825)
24. An Arrow to the Heart (18251827)
25. A Great Man in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time (18251826)
26. Cultivating His Garden (18261827)
27. The Sun of My Political Career Sets in Deepest Gloom (18281829)
Part V: The Slavocracy
28. Stay Thy Hand, God of Mercy (18291831)
29. Our Union: It Must Be Preserved (18311833)
30. The Ark of Our God Is Falling into the Hands of the Philistines (18311835)
31. Am I Gagged? (18351836)
32. I Am Not to Be Intimidated by All the Grand Juries in the Universe (1837)
33. Among the Most Illustrious of the World's Benefactors (18371838)
34. The Captives Are Free! (1838–1840)
35. Io Triomphe! (18401842)
36. The Sober Second Thought of the People (18421845)
37. I Say Now, Let It Come (18431845)
38. The End of Earth (18451848)
39. Obsequies