Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
PART ONE - The Frontiersman
CHAPTER ONE - A Short-Lived Family
CHAPTER TWO - Fortune’s Favorite
CHAPTER THREE - Wilderness Mission
CHAPTER FOUR - Bloodbath
CHAPTER FIVE - Shades of Death
CHAPTER SIX - The Soul of an Army
CHAPTER SEVEN - A Votary to Love
CHAPTER EIGHT - Darling of a Grateful Country
PART TWO - The Planter
CHAPTER NINE - The Man of Mode
CHAPTER TEN - A Certain Species of Property
CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Prodigy
CHAPTER TWELVE - Providence
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - A World of His Own
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Asiatic Prince
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - A Shock of Electricity
PART THREE - The General
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Glorious Cause
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Magnificent Bluff
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Land of Freedom
CHAPTER NINETEEN - The Heights
CHAPTER TWENTY - All London Afloat
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - Disaster
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - An Indecisive Mind
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - The Crossing
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - The Busy Scenes of a Camp
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - Darkness Visible
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - Rapping a Demigod over the Knuckles
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - A Dreary Kind of Place
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - The Long Retreat
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - Pests of Society
CHAPTER THIRTY - The Storm Thickens
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - The Traitor
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - Mutiny
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - Plundering Scoundrels
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - The World Turned Upside Down
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - Man of Moderation
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - Closing the Drama with Applause
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - Cincinnatus
PART FOUR - The Statesman
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT - American Celebrity
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE - Gentleman Farmer
CHAPTER FORTY - Devil’s Bargain
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE - The Ruins of the Past
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO - A Masterly Hand
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE - A House on Fire
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR - Rising Sun
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE - Mounting the Seat
PART FIVE - The President
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX - The Place of Execution
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN - Acting the Presidency
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT - The Cares of Office
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE - Rays of Genius
CHAPTER FIFTY - The Traveling Presidency
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE - The State of the President
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO - Capital Matters
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE - Southern Exposure
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR - Running into Extremes
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE - A Tissue of Machinations
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX - Citizen Genet
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN - Bring Out Your Dead
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT - Hercules in the Field
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE - Crowns and Coronets
CHAPTER SIXTY - Mad Dog
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE - The Colossus of the People
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO - The Master of Farewells
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE - Exiting the Stage
PART SIX - The Legend
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR - Samson and Solomon
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE - A Mind on the Stretch
CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX - Freedom
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN - Homecoming
Acknowledgements
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATION PERMISSIONS
INDEX
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