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A Note on the Text | |
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Principal Characters | |
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Prologue: With the Feelings of a Father: The White House, Washington, Winter 1832-33 | |
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The Love of Country, Fame and Honor: Beginnings to Late 1830 | |
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Andy Will Fight His Way in the World | |
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Follow Me and I'll Save You Yet | |
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A Marriage, a Defeat, and a Victory | |
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You Know Best, My Dear | |
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Ladies' Wars Are Always Fierce and Hot | |
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A Busybody Presbyterian Clergyman | |
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My White and Red Children | |
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Major Eaton Has Spoken of Resigning | |
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An Opinion of the President Alone | |
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Liberty and Union, Now and Forever | |
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General Jackson Rules by His Personal Popularity | |
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I Will Die With the Union: Late 1830 to 1834 | |
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I Have Been Left to Sup Alone | |
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A Mean and Scurvy Piece of Business | |
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Now Let Him Enforce It | |
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The Fury of a Chained Panther | |
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Hurra for the Hickory Tree! | |
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A Dreadful Crisis of Excitement and Violence | |
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The Mad Project of Disunion | |
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We Are Threatened to Have Our Throats Cut | |
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Great Is the Stake Placed in Our Hands | |
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My Mind Is Made Up | |
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He Appeared to Feel as a Father | |
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The People, Sir, Are with Me | |
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We Are in the Midst of a Revolution | |
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The Evening of His Days: 1834 to the End | |
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So You Want War | |
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A Dark, Lawless, and Insatiable Ambition! | |
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There Is a Rank Due to the United States Among Nations | |
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The Wretched Victim of a Dreadful Delusion | |
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How Would You Like to Be a Slave? | |
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The Strife About the Next Presidency | |
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Not One Would Have Ever Got Out Alive | |
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I Fear Emily Will Not Recover | |
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The President Will Go Out Triumphantly | |
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The Shock Is Great, and Grief Universal | |
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Epilogue: He Still Lives | |
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Author's Note and Acknowledgments | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Illustration Credits | |
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Index | |