The Great Triumvirate by Merrill Peterson

The Great Triumvirate by Merrill Peterson

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The Great Triumvirate by Merrill Peterson

This is a joint biography of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the most prominent members of the second generation of American statesmen, from 1812 until 1850 and is at the same time a history of the period. The author says a great deal about political style and character in America, political ambition and reputation, success and failure, ideas and interests during this period. The three statesmen represent startling contrast - Webster, the staunch New England defender of the Union, Clay, first a "war hawk" and later a populist politician, and Calhoun, the foremost advocate of Southern separatism and slavery. Their political lives were intertwined during much of this period.
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ISBN 13 9780195038774
ISBN 10 0195038770
Title The Great Triumvirate
Author Merrill Peterson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1987-10-15
Number of pages 592
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