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03158aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 6EF28B40F3A411E8AE43740197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181129010016 007 tb 008 180820t20182018nyu db 001 0ceng c 020 $a 1984833626 020 $a 9781984833624 035 $a (OCoLC)1048899165 040 $a TEFBT $b eng $e rda $c TEFBT $d OCLCF $d TEFBT $d BDX $d TEFBT $d JTH $d JQW $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a E338 $b .B73 2018b 082 04 $a 973.5 $2 23 100 1 $a Brands, H. W., $e author. 245 10 $a Heirs of the founders : $b the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants / $c H.W. Brands. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Random House Large Print, $c [2018] 300 $a 680 pages (large print) ; $c 24 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographic references (pages [603]-636) and index. 505 0 $a The spirit of 76' -- To build a nation -- The people's government -- A deep game -- Temptations of empire -- The fatal compromise. 520 $a "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."--Page [4] of cover. 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. 650 0 $a Large type books. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191022011902.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6EF28B40F3A411E8AE43740197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search