The Living Lincoln Book

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Living Lincoln Thomas A. Horrocks 1

Part 1 Leadership in the Making

1 The Educated Mr. Lincoln Frank J. Williams 9

2 Boss Lincoln: A Reappraisal of Abraham Lincoln's Party Leadership Matthew Pinsker 20

3 The Silent President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln, the Orator Who Would Not Speak Harold Holzer 38

4 "I Know but Little about Ships": Lincoln and the Navy in the Civil War Craig L. Symonds 63

Part 2 Race and Slavery

5 Lincoln's "Step-Children" and the National Family John Stauffer 79

6 Lincoln and Race in Nineteenth-Century Perspective Edna Greene Medford 98

7 Was Lincoln's Constitution Color-Blind? Michael Vorenberg 115

Part 3 Martyrdom and Memory

8 Lincoln's Practice of Republicanism: Striding through Richmond, April 4, 1865 Richard Wightman Fox 131

9 The Fatal Transition: From Lincoln to Johnson Gerald J. Prokopowicz 152

10 Abraham Lincoln in the Mind of the South: Assassination to Reconciliation Barry Schwartz 169

11 Lincoln at Two Hundred: Have We Finally Reached Randall's Point of Exhaustion? Orville Vernon Burton 204

Contributors 229

Index 233