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Author:

Brands, H. W, author.

Title:

Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants / H. W. Brands.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Doubledaya division of Penguin Random House LLC,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Calhoun, John C.--(John Caldwell),--1782-1850.
Clay, Henry,--1777-1852.
Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852.
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
Constitutional history--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1801-1815.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: January 1850 -- The spirit of '76 -- To build a nation -- The people's government -- Next to our liberty -- Temptations of empire -- The fatal compromise.

Summary:

"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 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 this second generation of American founders took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency, and tasked themselves with finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Above all, they sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its fudge on 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 three great men of America" had one last chanceto save the country from the real risk of civil war. But by then they were never further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0385542534 : HRD
9780385542531 : HRD

LCCN:

2018010542

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