Duel

Thomas Fleming is the author of more than forty books, including The New Dealers' War, Duel, and Liberty! The American Revolution, as well as best-selling novels about America's war experience such as Time and Tide and The Officers' Wives. Fleming is a frequent guest on and contributor to NPR, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. He lives in New York City and Westbrook, Connecticut.

• * List of Illustrations xi * Acknowledgements xiii * A General Nurses His Wounds * The Quarrelsome Men of Gotham * The New Caesar's Long Shadow * The Temptations of a Vice President * Politicians in the Wilderness * A Wary Candidate Tests the Waters * From Migraine to Miracle * Resist, Resist, Resist the Demagogues * Does Impeachment Justify Secession? * Mudslingers Front and Center * From the Low Road to the Depths * A Distracted Dictator and an Etiquette - Mad President * A Ruined Politician Has a Midnight Visitor * Light in the Labyrinth * Honor's Deadly Ritual * Why Soldiers Why? * This is a Moral Wound, Doctor * Muffled Drums and Beckoning Destiny * Afterward * Notes * Index