The Great Triumvirate Webster, Clay, and Calhoun |
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| Author:
| Peterson, Merrill D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-503877-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1987 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun were widely seen as the foremost statesmen of their age. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly recreates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of congressional leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of the...
More DescriptionEnormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun were widely seen as the foremost statesmen of their age. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly recreates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of congressional leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of the era--a conservative age in which statesmen saw their principal mission as preserving the legacy of free government received from the Founding Fathers.