
Explosion on the Potomac
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- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: "A Most Awful and Lamentable Catastrophe"
- 1: An Accidental President Seeks a Legacy
- A Southern Aristocrat
- Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
- The Accidental President
- Throwing a Bright Luster
- 2: A Secretary of State Embraces Manifest Destiny
- "I Will Reform It!"
- The Union's Salvation
- The Night Before the Storm
- 3: A Naval Officer Dreams of Glory
- A Rising Star
- A New System of Naval Warfare
- Making the Ocean Neutral Ground
- 4: An Exploding Peacemaker Disrupts Everything
- Race with the Great Western
- "Would to God That I Had Alone Been Slain!"
- Obsequies and Inquiries
- 5: A Southern Statesman Hits a Hornet's Nest
- Calhoun's Colossal Misstep
- A Texas Bombshell
- The People's Will
- 6: A President Finds True Love but Grandsires Two Wars
- A Widowed President
- The Rose of Long Island
- "Lady Presidentress"
- Swallowing Arsenic
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
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