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A Note on the Text
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Principal Characters
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Prologue: With the Feelings of a Father: The White House, Washington, Winter 1832-33
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The Love of Country, Fame and Honor: Beginnings to Late 1830
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Andy Will Fight His Way in the World
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Follow Me and I'll Save You Yet
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A Marriage, a Defeat, and a Victory
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You Know Best, My Dear
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Ladies' Wars Are Always Fierce and Hot
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A Busybody Presbyterian Clergyman
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My White and Red Children
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Major Eaton Has Spoken of Resigning
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An Opinion of the President Alone
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Liberty and Union, Now and Forever
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General Jackson Rules by His Personal Popularity
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I Will Die With the Union: Late 1830 to 1834
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I Have Been Left to Sup Alone
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A Mean and Scurvy Piece of Business
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Now Let Him Enforce It
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The Fury of a Chained Panther
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Hurra for the Hickory Tree!
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A Dreadful Crisis of Excitement and Violence
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The Mad Project of Disunion
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We Are Threatened to Have Our Throats Cut
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Great Is the Stake Placed in Our Hands
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My Mind Is Made Up
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He Appeared to Feel as a Father
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The People, Sir, Are with Me
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We Are in the Midst of a Revolution
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The Evening of His Days: 1834 to the End
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So You Want War
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A Dark, Lawless, and Insatiable Ambition!
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There Is a Rank Due to the United States Among Nations
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The Wretched Victim of a Dreadful Delusion
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How Would You Like to Be a Slave?
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The Strife About the Next Presidency
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Not One Would Have Ever Got Out Alive
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I Fear Emily Will Not Recover
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The President Will Go Out Triumphantly
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The Shock Is Great, and Grief Universal
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Epilogue: He Still Lives
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Author's Note and Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Illustration Credits
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Index
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