Midstream: Lincoln the President

xiii, 467 pp. 8vo. A biography of Abraham Lincoln 'at the height of his powers, caught in a swirling current of war, politics and personal tragedy.' CONTENTS: I. Presidential Days; II. Lonely White House Pair; III. Attention of the President; IV. The Gift of Laughter; V. Capitol Hill; VI. President and Congress; VII. Democracy and the War Power; VIII. "Copperheads" and Prisoners of State; IX. The Vallandigham Case; X. Politics in 1863; XI. Vallandigham for Governor: Further Phases of Politics, 1863; XII. Lincoln and Seymour; XIII. Nations Under Stress: United States and Britain; XIV. Friendship of Nations; XV. The Chattanooga Front: Death of Helm; XVI. Grant Versus Bragg: Missionary Ridge: End of 1863; XVII. "This Strange, Quaint, Great Man"; Appendix: The Opening of the Lincoln Papers; Index.