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020			_z9780385542548 (ebook)
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050	1	0	_aE338 _b.B73 2018
082	0	0	_a973.5 _223
100	1		_aBrands, H. W.,
245	1	0	_aHeirs of the founders : _bthe epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants / _cH. W. Brands.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1811
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bDoubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, _c[2018]
300			_ax, 413 pages, 8 pages of plates ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together this second generation of American founders took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency, and tasked themselves with finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Above all, they sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its fudge on where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation; and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the union as a free state, "the three great men of America" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But by then they were never further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: January 1850 -- The spirit of '76 -- To build a nation -- The people's government -- Next to our liberty -- Temptations of empire -- The fatal compromise.
588			_aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1801-1815.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1815-1861.
600	1	0	_aCalhoun, John C. _q(John Caldwell), _d1782-1850.
600	1	0	_aClay, Henry, _d1777-1852.
600	1	0	_aWebster, Daniel, _d1782-1852.
650		0	_aStatesmen _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aConstitutional history _zUnited States.
999			_c233381 _d233381