The destiny of the republic [a tale of medicine, madness & the murder of a president]
- Prologue: Chose
- Promise
- The scientific spirit
- Providence
- A light in the wilderness
- God's minuteman
- Bleak mountain
- War
- Hand and soul
- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes
- Brains, flesh, and blood
- Casus belli
- The dark dreams of presidents
- "A desperate deed"
- Fear
- "Thank God it is all over"
- "It's true"
- All evil consequences
- Blood-guilty
- "The whole nation kin"
- Neither death nor life
- One nation
- Hope
- On a mountaintop, alone
- Terror, hope, and despair
- One : after all
- Two : all the angels of the universe
- The scientific spirit.