Introduction; Preface to Conversations with Lincoln; 1: “Miscellaneous and Incongruous Elements”; 2: “Fortunate for the Peace”; 3: “Think Calmly and Well”; 4: “The Heather Is on Fire”; 5: “The Fat’s in the Fire”; 6: “The Gases of Public Exasperation”; 7: “Like a Chinaman Beating His Swords”; 8: “Anything but a Bed of Roses”; 9: “A Leader to Speak the Bold Word”; 10: “It Is Not Best to Swap Horses”; 11: “It Made My Heart Jump”