Henry Clay: Statesman for the UnionW. W. Norton & Company, 1991 - 818 من الصفحات Among the nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress who helped preserve the Union in the antebellum period. Remini portrays both the statesman and the private man, a man whose family life was painfully torn and who burned with ambition for the office he could not reach, the presidency. |
المحتوى
The Mill Boy of the Slashes | 1 |
The Dark and Bloody Ground | 15 |
The Burr Conspiracy | 32 |
The Duel | 47 |
Emergence of a Republican Ideologue | 57 |
Mr Speaker | 72 |
The Diplomat | 94 |
I Am Sick of Europe | 123 |
A Crushing Defeat | 402 |
Return to Triumph | 412 |
The Great Triumvirate | 436 |
The Emergence of the Whig Party | 458 |
Tragedy and Defeat | 471 |
The Panic of 1837 | 497 |
The War of the Titans | 512 |
The Triumphal Tour | 532 |
The Ambitious Politicians | 133 |
The Party Disrupter | 154 |
The Great Compromiser | 169 |
Retirement from Politics | 193 |
The American System | 210 |
The Presidential Election of 1824 | 234 |
The Corrupt Bargain | 251 |
Secretary of State | 273 |
The Discouraging World of Diplomacy | 296 |
Abominations | 311 |
A Vision of the Future | 331 |
Enforced Retirement | 345 |
Presidential Nominee | 365 |
Scenes of Tergiversation Hypocricy Degeneracy and Corruption | 378 |
Deceived Betrayed Beaten | 545 |
And Tyler Too | 561 |
The Dictator | 578 |
Like the Souls Quitting the Body | 600 |
Texas | 611 |
The Old Coon Is Dead | 642 |
This Most Unnecessary and Horrible War with Mexico | 668 |
The Sage of Ashland | 687 |
Return to the Senate | 714 |
The Compromise of 1850 | 730 |
My Political Life Is Over | 762 |
Bibliographical Essay | 787 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
1st session 27th Congress 31st Congress administration Andrew Jackson Annals of Congress April Ashland August Bank Benton bill British Buren Calhoun candidate Clay Papers Clay to Brooke Clay to James Clay to John Clay to Lucretia Clay to Porter Clay's committee compromise Congressional Globe Constitution copy CPP corrupt bargain Crawford Crittenden December December 16 declared defeat Democrats election electoral favor February Filson Club friends Gallatin Harrison Henry Clay House Jacksonian January John Quincy Adams July June Kentuckian Kentucky later letter Lexington Madison Mangum March Martin Van Buren Memoirs Missouri Monroe National Intelligencer never nomination November October Ohio political Polk President presidential Randolph Register of Debates resolution secretary Senate September slave slavery South southern Speaker speech tariff Taylor Texas Thomas Hart Thomas Hart Benton tion told treaty Tyler Union United veto VIII Virginia vote War Hawks Washington Whig party William York