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04115aam a2200517Ii 4500 001 8EEBB872839511EAAF1A611397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200421010121 008 190328t20192018nyua b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 0525433902 020 $a 9780525433903 035 $a (OCoLC)1090748049 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NFG $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a E338 $b .B73 2019 082 04 $a 973.5 $2 23 100 1 $a Brands, H. W., $e author. 245 10 $a Heirs of the founders : $b Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants / $c H.W. Brands. 250 $a First Anchor Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2019. 300 $a viii, 413 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t The fatal compromise. $t The spirit of '76 -- $t To build a nation -- $t The people's government -- $t A deep game -- $t Temptations of empire -- $t The fatal compromise. 520 $a "From ... 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 to 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."-- $c Dust jacket. 600 10 $a Calhoun, John C. $q (John Caldwell), $d 1782-1850. 600 10 $a Clay, Henry, $d 1777-1852. 600 10 $a Webster, Daniel, $d 1782-1852. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1801-1815. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1815-1861. 650 0 $a Statesmen $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States. 600 17 $a Calhoun, John C. $q (John Caldwell), $d 1782-1850. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00046306 600 17 $a Clay, Henry, $d 1777-1852. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00014376 600 17 $a Webster, Daniel, $d 1782-1852. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00052144 650 7 $a Constitutional history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875777 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Statesmen. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01131990 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1801-1861 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010905.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20200421011042.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8EEBB872839511EAAF1A611397128E48 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search