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(2002)
The Lincoln no one knows
the mysterious man who ran the Civil War
by Webb Garrison
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The Lincoln no one knows: the mysterious man who ran the Civil War
2002, MJF Books
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Table of Contents
Preface -- -- Part 1
Half a Century Punctuated with Baffling Questions -- -- 1.
What Blood Ran Through the Veins of The Man Who Remembered Knob Creek? -- (starting p. 5) -- 2.
Did a Boyhood Injury Lead to Minor, but Lasting, Damage to the Brain? -- (starting p. 14) -- 3.
What Led Lincoln to Form Unusual Kinds of Relationships? -- (starting p. 19) -- 4.
What Induced Lincoln to Enter into "A Marriage of Opposites"? -- (starting p. 26) -- 5.
What Induced a Foe of Slavery to Serve as A Counsel for a Slaveholder? -- (starting p. 33) -- 6.
When Did He Begin to Dream of Becoming The First Pilot of the Ship of State from the Western Frontier? -- (starting p. 38) -- 7.
Why Is He Still Seen As A Hayseed Lawyer Who Barely Made a Living? -- (starting p. 43) -- 8.
Where Did He Get the Skills That Made Him An All-Time Master of Public Speaking? -- (starting p. 50) -- 9.
How Did He Manage to Occupy Center Stage in A Series of History-Making Debates? -- (starting p. 56) -- 10.
Who Thought of Making a High-income Attorney The Rail-Splitting Candidate for the Presidency? -- (starting p. 63) -- 11.
At the Wigwam, How Did a Minor Contender Achieve A Sweeping Victory on the Third Ballot? -- (starting p. 69) -- Part 2
Six Fateful Months -- -- 12.
Why Did He Ask His Advisers, "Is It Wise to Attempt to Relieve Fort Sumter"? -- (starting p. 79) -- 13.
What Led Him to Call for 75,000 Men for Ninety Days? -- (starting p. 83) -- 14.
Why Was John Brown's Captor Picked to Become Field Commander of the U.S. Army? -- (starting p. 90) -- 15.
What Induced a Landlubber to Announce That The Entire Coastline of the Seven States Be under Blockade? -- (starting p. 95) -- 16.
What Persuaded a Veteran Attorney to Order Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus? -- (starting p. 101) -- 17.
How Did a Novice Get The Upper Hand over Congress? -- (starting p. 107) -- 18.
Why Was Bull Run Made The Point of No Return? -- (starting p. 114) -- Part 3
Questions the Commander in Chief Did Not Address -- -- 19.
Why Was an Overworked Commander in Chief also General in Chief and Chief of Staff? -- (starting p. 123) -- 20.
How Did He Develop Enthusiasm for Testing Weapons of Every Kind and Size? -- (starting p. 130) -- 21.
What Led Him to Countermand Early Efforts to Free Some Slaves? -- (starting p. 136) -- 22.
Why Was Preservation of the Union the Dominant Goal of the Commander in Chief? -- (starting p. 142) -- 23.
What Accounts for His Dealings with the First National Draft for Military Service? -- (starting p. 149) -- 24.
How Did a Tenderhearted Man Direct Wholesale Slaughter for Month After Month? -- (starting p. 157) -- 25.
What Led the Tycoon to Risk a New Response to Emancipation -- the Burning Issue of the Day? -- (starting p. 163) -- 26.
A Racist by Today's Standards, How Did He Become the Great Emancipator: a Crusader for Racial Equality? -- (starting p. 172) -- Part 4
Unanswered Questions Lurk in the Shadow of the Executive Mansion -- -- 27.
Did He Ever Lose Faith in a Borrowed Plan to Solve the Slavery Question? -- (starting p. 185) -- 28.
How Did He Reconcile "No Secession" with Carving a New State from Virginia? -- (starting p. 193) -- 29.
Why Did the World Leader of Democracy Approve of Punishments Favored by Kings and Dictators? -- (starting p. 198) -- 30.
By What Exercise in Logic Did He Decide That 10 Percent of the Electorate Could Constitute a Governing Majority? -- (starting p. 204) -- 31.
How Did He Succeed in Winning the Election of 1864? -- (starting p. 210) -- 32.
How Did He Plan to Secure Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment? -- (starting p. 217) -- Part 5
Nancy Hanks's Son Was a Cluster of Unsolved Riddles -- -- 33.
Why Is He Remembered as the Merriest of All Chief Executives? -- (starting p. 225) -- 34.
What Accounts for Lincoln's Rapid and Radical Changes? Opportunism? Capacity for Compromise? or Dramatic Personal Growth? -- (starting p. 231) -- 35.
Why Was the Declaration of Independence Seen As the Cornerstone of the Indissoluble Union? -- (starting p. 239) -- 36.
What Accounts for His Interest in Signs, Omens, Portents, and Dreams? -- (starting p. 246) -- 37.
Why Was He Casual When Constantly Confronted by Assassination Threats and Other Dangers? -- (starting p. 254) -- 38.
What Part of His Prodigious Output Is Lost Beyond Hope of Recovery? -- (starting p. 263)
Conclusion -- (starting p. 268)
Appendixes -- (starting p. 273)
Bibliography -- (starting p. 288)
Index-- (starting p. 301)
Edition Notes
Originally published: Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill Press, ©1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-300) and index.
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