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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828530903321

Autore

Peterson Merrill D.

Titolo

The great triumvirate : Webster, Clay, and Calhoun  / / Merrill D. Peterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

0-19-983923-9

1-280-52368-9

9786610523689

0-19-802094-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (600 p.)

Disciplina

973.50922

Soggetti

Statesmen - United States

United States Politics and government 1815-1861

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; One: Paths to Power; Two: Dimensions of Nationalism; Three: The Political Crossroads; Four: Liberty and Union; Five: The Embattled Senators; Six: The Whig Debacle; Seven: Private Lives, Public Images; Eight: Ordeal of the Union; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a joint biography of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the most prominent of the second generation of American statesmen, from 1812 until 1850.