Kerry, John (continued)

and Jennifer Granholm, 284

and Edward Kennedy, 284

and Teresa Heinz Kerry, 286

and Joseph Lieberman, 281

and John McCain, 288

and Zell Miller, 289

and Walter Mondale, 288

and Adam Nagourney, 283

and Todd Purdam, 289

and Donald Rumsfeld, 287

and Arnold Schwarzenegger, 289

and Jeanne Shaheen, 284

and Bob Shrum, 283, 287

and Tom Vilsack, 284

and William Weld, 281

King Caucus, 67, 70, 83, 86, 88, 100, 113n23, 203n3, 341

Kissinger, Henry, 222–223

Kitchen Cabinet, 212, 220, 224–226, 251n3

Know-Nothing Party, 66, 80, 267

legislature, 23, 41, 47–49, 70, 112n22, 124–128, 131, 135–136, 141–142, 170, 184, 196, 217, 219–220, 232, 243, 356, 412

liberals, 168–169, 186, 188, 191–193, 195–197, 201, 207n40, 213–214, 221, 224–225, 228, 231, 234, 241, 278–279, 312, 317–318, 327–328, 344

Liberty Party, 66, 139, 268, 295n24

Lincoln, Abraham, 18, 28, 33n29, 56n2, 61n26, 62n30, 67, 84, 87, 116, 118–119, 138–150, 159n48, 159nn50–53, 160nn54–57, 161nn59–64, 162n66, 162n68, 167, 172, 186, 189, 204n7, 269, 291, 295n24, 317, 342, 348, 362–365, 413

and Edward Bates, 147, 148

and Thomas Hart Benton, 145

and William Bissell, 145

and John Breckinridge, 146

and James Buchanan, 144, 145

and Simon Cameron, 146–149

and Salmon Chase, 146–149

and Cassius Clay, 140, 144

and Henry Clay, 18, 139, 141, 159n52, 295n24

and David Davis, 145, 147

and Stephen Douglas, 138–139, 141, 144, 146, 148

and Frederick Douglass, 144

and Millard Fillmore, 140, 145, 149

and John Fremont, 145

and Andrew Jackson, 143

and Thomas Jefferson, 143

and Owen Lovejoy, 144

and Joel Matteson, 142, 160n55

and Franklin Pierce, 139

and James Polk, 67, 140, 147, 291

and William Seward, 146–149

and Lyman Trumbull, 142, 145, 147, 149

and Daniel Webster, 141

and Richard Yates, 140

Long, Huey, 186, 305, 414–415

Machiavelli, 44, 52–53

Madison, James, 23, 25–26, 34n33, 34n36, 43, 48, 52, 80–81, 86, 106n5, 116–126, 151n3, 152n9, 153n14, 154n17, 155n21, 340–341, 349, 412