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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full in this rich and sweeping biography that vividly portrays all the drama of his times.
7) The papers of Henry Clay: Volume 8,Candidate, compromiser, whig : March 5, 1829 - December 31, 1836
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"At the Edge of the Precipice" is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American statesman best remembered for his initiation and support of political compromise to keep the Union together during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A critical assessment of the Mexican-American war and its divisive role in U.S. politics also evaluates its impact on the careers of James Polk, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln and how it set the stage for the American Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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...
12) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in US Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union"--Amazon.com.