Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants

Brands, H. W. (Henry William)

ISBN 10: 0385542534 / ISBN 13: 9780385542531

Edité par Doubleday, New York, 2018

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Octavo - NF/F - Black cloth covered boards quarterbound in a black cloth backstrip with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a light bumping at the head of the spine and a moderate amount of bumping at the tail. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 413 pages. Illustrated with a section of artwork in the center. Dust Jacket - has no discernable wear - jacket is clean, bright, and sharp. Heavier than average book will require additional postage on order requesting International or Priority shipping services. A beautiful copy! Brands was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice, once for his The First American and again for Traitor to His Class.

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• Titre: Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
• Éditeur: Doubleday, New York
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0385542534
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780385542531
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: Bon
• État de la jaquette: Très bon
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy

In the early 1800s, 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 these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify 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 immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart.
     Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.

À propos de l?auteur

H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, two of which, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, The General vs. the President, was a New York Times bestseller.