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Figures Frontispiece. Buchanan’s Inauguration I.1. A Serviceable Garment—or, Reverie of a Bachelor / 3 I.2. Buchanan’s inauguration / 10 1.1. Buchanan takes inaugural oath / 21 1.2. Dred Scott, 1857 / 29 2.1. Utah and the West, 1853 / 47 2.2. Brigham Young / 50 2.3. Albert Sidney Johnston / 60 3.1. Senator Stephen Douglas / 87 3.2. Kansas Territory, 1850s / 97 4.1. Map of Central America, 1856 / 121 5.1. The Buck Chase of 1856 / 140 5.2. Forcing Slavery down the Throat of a Freesoiler / 155 6.1. Lancaster and Buchanan’s law office, 1850s / 166 6.2. Firing on the Star of the West, 1861 / 177 7.1. Buchanan and his cabinet, c. 1859 / 188 7.2. Little Bo Peep and Her Foolish Sheep / 190 8.1. Joseph Holt / 210 9.1. Buchanan’s inaugural procession, 1857 / 239 9.2. The Right Man for the Right Place / 247 E.1. Buchanan in retirement / 267 ...

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