Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 9
With Liberty and Justice for All 11
1 The Opening Gun 15
2 The Last Puritan 28
3 The Impossible Dilemma 42
4 The Watchmaker 51
5 A New Gideon's Army 63
6 Fire-Starter 77
7 The Flood 87
8 Desk 203 97
9 Sounding Forth the Trumpet 104
10 The Eagle Has Departed 118
11 Proceed without Delay 125
12 "Hostilities Have Begun!" 138
13 Flying Artillery 145
14 "A New Spirit Abroad in the Land" 156
15 Idyll in Paradise 169
16 "A Little More Grape, Mr. Bragg" 177
17 Six Thousand Miles 191
18 Vera Cruz 200
19 Mr. Wilmot's Proviso 207
20 "My Duty Is to Sacrifice Myself" 214
21 To the Halls of Montezuma 222
22 Transitions 235
23 Gold in California! 244
24 The Go-Ahead Age 256
25 The Wages of Fear 268
26 The Peculiar Institution 282
27 "A Great Good!" 291
28 The Next Best Thing 304
29 The Grand Old Guard 318
30 "Peace in Our Time" 330
31 Reactions 343
32 Freedom Road 355
33 The Little Lady 363
34 Kansas-Nebraska 371
35 Rail-Splitter 382
36 Bleeding Kansas 392
37 Captain Brown 401
38 1857 407
39 Revival! 418
40 "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" 427
41 A House Divided 440
42 A Matter of Principle 447
43 "A Slip, but Not a Fall" 456
44 Sword of Vengeance 465
45 The Making of a Legend 480
46 Paranoia 489
47 A Tale of Two Cities 501
48 Storm Warnings 510
Epilogue 518
Authors' Note 523
Notes 525
Bibliography 540
Index 546
