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| Preface: The Moral Preparation of a Great Politician | |
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| Who Is This Fellow? He Is Smarter Than He Looks | |
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| A Startling Disparity | |
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| Moral Reasoning | |
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| Disregarding Legends | |
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| Destiny Obscure? | |
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| Noble Rage | |
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| Young Lincoln's Great Rejections | |
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| The Lifeline of Print | |
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| He Will Be Good--But God Knows When | |
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| Poor Man, Free Man, Free Moral Agent | |
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| He Studied with No One | |
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| Tom Lincoln and His Boy | |
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| The Awkward Age of Goodness | |
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| A Name That Fills All the Nation and Is Not Unknown Even in Foreign Lands | |
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| I Want in All Cases to Do Right | |
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| Humor in His Composition | |
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| Not a Rebel, Not a Revolutionary | |
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| The Gem of His Character | |
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| Be Emulous to Excel | |
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| Something More Than Common | |
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| No More Scoffing | |
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| A Poetry in His Nature | |
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| Self-Improver | |
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| Was This Man a Politician? | |
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| Worthy of Their Esteem | |
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| A Political Career | |
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| A Free People Divide into Parties | |
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| The Party of National Improvement | |
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| Rising Public Man | |
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| Why This Vote? | |
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| Don't Shoot Editors | |
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| Hail, Fall of Fury! | |
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| They Are as We Would Be | |
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| The Three Whigs from the Seventh, or, Honorable Maneuvering | |
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| Another President, Another War | |
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| Spotty Lincoln | |
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| Politically Suicidal Nonprinciple? | |
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| Letters Home | |
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| Speech Notes | |
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| Politics and Morals | |
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| The Congressman as Moralist (and Political Operative) | |
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| The Congressman as Political Operative (and Moralist) | |
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| The Same Hatred of Slavery | |
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| Shall These Things Be? | |
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| The Vocation of a Politician | |
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| Thunderstruck in Illinois | |
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| The Senate Acts and Lincoln Decides | |
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| Fugitives, the Law, and the Principle | |
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| No Man Is Good Enough to Govern Another Man | |
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| Lincoln Reads Douglas's Opponents | |
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| A Self-Evident Lie? | |
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| Lincoln's Rise | |
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| I Shall Try to Show That It Is Wrong | |
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| Monstrous Injustice | |
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| Just What We Would Be in Their Situation | |
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| "Sacred" Self-Government? | |
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| Men Are Not Angels but They Have a Sense of Justice | |
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| The Spirit of '76 | |
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| What Was He Doing? | |
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| Our Duty as We Understand It | |
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| If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong | |
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| How to Make a Strong Moral Argument Without Being Moralistic | |
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| The Worthy Work of Party-Building | |
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| A Point Merely Personal to Myself | |
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| Following His Own Advice | |
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| Not So Much Greater Than the Rest of Us | |
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| Lincoln's Defense of Our Common Humanity | |
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| Douglas's Assault on Lincoln's Egalitarianism | |
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| The Modern Assault on Lincoln's "White Supremacy": Some Considerations | |
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| On Lincoln's Moral Composition | |
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| Lincoln Attacks the Imbruting of Black America | |
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| Such an Impression | |
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| Mental Culture in New York | |
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| The Hugeness of Slavery | |
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| How Did This Man Ever Become President? | |
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| The Candidate of Moral Argument | |
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| Lincoln for President | |
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| The Man with the Blue Umbrella | |
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| A Very Poor Hater | |
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| The Great Reaper Case | |
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| The President Appoints a Secretary of War | |
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| Let Grass Grow Where It May | |
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| Once a Friend and Still Not an Enemy | |
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| Here I Stand | |
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| The Union Is Unbroken | |
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| Reflections on Two War Presidents | |
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| The Election of 1860 "Thrown Into the House" | |
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| Notes and Sources | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |