The intimate world of Abraham Lincoln

"What stuff!"

Beginnings : early puberty, Reuben chronicles

The New Salem years : starting afresh : new faces, new beginnings

Ann Rutledge : then and now

Lincoln, Mary Owens, and the wilds of Lincoln wit

The curious case of Elmer Ellsworth

"Yours forever"

Marriage and Mary Todd

Lincoln, sex, and religion

Morals, ethics, and Leonard Swett's Lincoln

On Lincoln's sexuality, with extensions

Afterword : reactions and comments : I. A respectful dissent / by Michael Burlingame ; II. An enthusiastic endorsement / by Michael B. Chesson ; III. A psychologist's perspective / by Alice Fennessey

Appendix I : First chronicles of Reuben

Appendix II : The Speed letters

Appendix III : Letter from Leonard Swett to William H. Herndon.