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17 Chapters
Chapter 1 THE WILD WEST.
Chapter 2 THE LINCOLN FAMILY.
Chapter 3 EARLY YEARS.
Chapter 4 IN INDIANA.
Chapter 5 SECOND JOURNEY TO NEW ORLEANS.
Chapter 6 DESULTORY EMPLOYMENTS.
Chapter 7 ENTERING POLITICS.
Chapter 8 ENTERING THE LAW.
Chapter 9 ON THE CIRCUIT.
Chapter 10 SOCIAL LIFE AND MARRIAGE.
Chapter 11 THE ENCROACHMENTS OF SLAVERY.
Chapter 12 THE AWAKENING OF THE LION.
Chapter 13 TWO THINGS THAT LINCOLN MISSED.
Chapter 14 THE BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Chapter 15 THE BATTLE OF THE GIANTS.
Chapter 16 GROWING AUDACITY OF THE SLAVE POWER.
Chapter 17 THE BACKWOODSMAN AT THE CENTER OF EASTERN CULTURE.
Chapter 18 THE NOMINATION OF 1860.
Chapter 19 THE ELECTION.
Chapter 20 FOUR LONG MONTHS.
Chapter 21 JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON.
Chapter 22 THE INAUGURATION.
Chapter 23 LINCOLN HIS OWN PRESIDENT.
Chapter 24 FORT SUMTER.
Chapter 25 THE OUTBURST OF PATRIOTISM.
Chapter 26 THE WAR HERE TO STAY.
Chapter 27 THE DARKEST HOUR OF THE WAR.
Chapter 28 LINCOLN AND FREMONT.
Chapter 29 LINCOLN AND MCCLELLAN.
Chapter 30 LINCOLN AND GREELEY.
Chapter 31 EMANCIPATION.
Chapter 32 DISCOURAGEMENTS.
Chapter 33 NEW HOPES.
Chapter 34 LINCOLN AND GRANT.
Chapter 35 LITERARY CHARACTERISTICS.
Chapter 36 SECOND ELECTION.
Chapter 37 CLOSE OF THE WAR.
Chapter 38 ASSASSINATION.
Chapter 39 A NATION'S SORROW.
Chapter 40 THE MEASURE OF A MAN.
Chapter 41 TESTIMONIES.
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Chapter 17 THE BACKWOODSMAN AT THE CENTER OF EASTERN CULTURE.

Lincoln's modesty made it impossible for him to be ambitious. He appreciated honors, and he desired them up to a certain point. But they did not, in his way of looking at them, seem to belong to him. He was slow to realize that he was of more than ordinary importance to the community.

At the first republican convention in 1856, when Fremont was

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