Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life
1922
Stephenson's 1922 study of Lincoln the man: the melancholy, the humor, the marriage, and the slow hardening of an irresolute politician into the president of the war years. An early psychological portrait, drawn while people who knew Lincoln still lived.
- The Child of the Forest
- The Mysterious Youth
- A Village Leader
- Revelations
- Prosperity
- Unsatisfying Recognition
- The Second Start
- A Return to Politics
- The Literary Statesman
- The Dark Horse
- Secession
- The Crisis
- Eclipse
- The Strange New Man
- President and Premier
- "On to Richmond!"
- Defining the Issue
- The Jacobin Club
- The Jacobins Become Inquisitors
- Is Congress the President's Master?
- The Struggle to Control the Army
- Lincoln Emerges
- The Mystical Statesman
- Gambling in Generals
- A War Behind the Scenes
- The Dictator, the Marplot and the Little Men
- The Tribune of the People
- Apparent Ascendency
- Catastrophe
- The President Versus the Vindictives
- A Menacing Pause
- The August Conspiracy
- The Rally to the President
- "Father Abraham"
- The Master of the Moment
- Preparing a Different War
- Fate Interposes
- Bibliography
- Notes