Life Of Henry Clay
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Author |
: Robert Vincent Remini |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 884 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393310884 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393310887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay by : Robert Vincent Remini
"Great biography leaves an indelible view of the subject. After Remini's masterful portrait, Clay is unforgettable." --Donald B. Cole, Newsday
Author |
: Lindsey Apple |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2011-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813134116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813134110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Family Legacy of Henry Clay by : Lindsey Apple
Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country’s solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple’s study delves into the family’s struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple’s extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay’s life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky’s most distinguished families.
Author |
: Harlow Giles Unger |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2015-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780306823923 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0306823926 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay by : Harlow Giles Unger
In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's formative years and prevented dissolution of the infant American republic. The only freshman congressman ever elected Speaker of the House, Henry Clay brought an arsenal of rhetorical weapons to subdue feuding members of the House of Representatives and established the Speaker as the most powerful elected official after the President. During fifty years in public service-as congressman, senator, secretary of state, and four-time presidential candidate-Clay constantly battled to save the Union, summoning uncanny negotiating skills to force bitter foes from North and South to compromise on slavery and forego secession. His famous "Missouri Compromise" and four other compromises thwarted civil war "by a power and influence," Lincoln said, "which belonged to no other statesman of his age and times." Explosive, revealing, and richly illustrated, Henry Clay is the story of one of the most courageous-and powerful-political leaders in American History.
Author |
: David S. Heidler |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 1090 |
Release |
: 2010-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588369956 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588369951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay by : David S. Heidler
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler present Clay in his early years as a precocious, witty, and optimistic Virginia farm boy who at the age of twenty transformed himself into an attorney. The authors reveal Clay’s tumultuous career in Washington, including his participation in the deadlocked election of 1824 that haunted him for the rest of his career, and shine new light on Clay’s marriage to plain, wealthy Lucretia Hart, a union that lasted fifty-three years and produced eleven children. Featuring an inimitable supporting cast including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is beautifully written and replete with fresh anecdotes and insights. Horse trader and risk taker, arm twister and joke teller, Henry Clay was the consummate politician who gave ground, made deals, and changed the lives of millions.
Author |
: James C. Klotter |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 537 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190498047 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190498048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay by : James C. Klotter
Charismatic, charming, and one of the best orators of his era, Henry Clay achieved success at many levels. Yet Clay still saw presidential greatness remain a fingertip away. Why? This book uses new sources to provide a focused, nuanced description of Clay's programs and politics and to explain why the man they called "The Great Rejected" never won the presidency but did win the accolades of history.
Author |
: Michael Burgan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592961746 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592961740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay by : Michael Burgan
Profiles the American statesman known for his initiation and support of political compromise to keep the Union together during the first half of the 19th century.
Author |
: Merrill D. Peterson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 1988-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198020943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198020945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Triumvirate by : Merrill D. Peterson
Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly re-creates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. Arriving on the national scene at the onset of the War of 1812 and departing political life during the ordeal of the Union in 1850-52, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun opened--and closed--a new era in American politics. In outlook and style, they represented startling contrasts: Webster, the Federalist and staunch New England defender of the Union; Clay, the "war hawk" and National Rebublican leader from the West; Calhoun, the youthful nationalist who became the foremost spokesman of the South and slavery. They came together in the Senate for the first time in 1832, united in their opposition of Andrew Jackson, and thus gave birth to the idea of the "Great Triumvirate." Entering the history books, this idea survived the test of time because these men divided so much of American politics between them for so long. Peterson brings to life the great events in which the Triumvirate figured so prominently, including the debates on Clay's American System, the Missouri Compromise, the Webster-Hayne debate, the Bank War, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the annexation of Texas, and the Compromise of 1850. At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of non-presidential leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of this conservative era in which statesmen viewed the preservation of the legacy of free government inherited from the Founding Fathers as their principal mission. In fascinating detail, Peterson demonstrates how precisely Webster, Clay, and Calhoun exemplify three facets of this national mind.
Author |
: Maurice Glen Baxter |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813129109 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813129105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay the Lawyer by : Maurice Glen Baxter
Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor both to the early development of the U.S. legal system and to the interaction between law and politics in pre-Civil War America. During the years of Clay's practice, modern American law was taking shape, building on the English experience but working out the new rules and precedents that a changing and growing society required. Clay specialized in property law, a natural choice at a time of entangled land claims, ill-defined boundaries, and inadequate state and federal procedures. He argued many precedent-setting cases, some of them before the U.S. Supreme Court. Maurice Baxter contends that Clay's extensive legal work in this area greatly influenced his political stances on various land policy issues. During Clay's lifetime, property law also included questions pertaining to slavery. With Daniel Webster, he handled a very significant constitutional case concerning the interstate slave trade. Baxter provides an overview of the federal and state court systems of Clay's time. After addressing Clay's early legal career, he focuses on Clay's interest in banking issues, land-related economic matters, and the slave trade. The portrait of Clay that emerges from this inquiry shows a skilled lawyer who was deeply involved with the central legal and economic issues of his day.
Author |
: Maurice G. Baxter |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2004-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813191122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813191126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Henry Clay and the American System by : Maurice G. Baxter
This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System -- a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government and constitutional aspects of what was perhaps Clay's greatest contribution to national policy, a contribution that has received surprisingly little study until now. During the first half of the nineteenth century the new United States experienced rapid material growth, transforming a largely agrarian, pre-modern economy into a diversified, industrializing one. As Speaker of the House in the years following the War of 1812, and later as founder of the Whig party, Clay argued strongly for the development of a home market for domestic goods so that Americans would not be dependent on foreign imports. This "American System" was originally little more than a protective tariff on foreign goods, but it soon came to encompass a collection of policies that included a national banking system and distribution of federal funds to improve transportation. Baxter reveals the inner workings of Clay's program and offers the first careful analysis of its successes and failures. This lively and incisive account will appeal to anyone interested in American history and the processes that shaped modern America
Author |
: Kenneth Warren |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2000-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822972211 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822972212 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Triumphant Capitalism by : Kenneth Warren
Best remembered today for his fierce opposition to labor, especially during the Homestead Strike of 1892, Henry Clay Frick was also one of the most powerful and innovative industrialists of the nineteenth century.After consolidating the vital bituminous coke fields of the Connellsville region in western Pennsylvania, Frick became the most important of Andrew Carnegie's partners and the manager of Carnegie's steel interests. Later, his bitter oppositon to Carnegie was one factor in the events leading to the 1901 purchase of the Carnegie Steel Company by J. P. Morgan and the formation of the Unites States Steel Corporation.Kenneth Warren is the first historian to be given unrestricted access to the extensive Frick archives in Pittsburgh. Drawing on Frick's personal and business papers, as well as the records of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and the U.S. Steel Corporation, Warren provides a wealth of new insights into Frick's relationship with such contemporaries as Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, and Elbert Gary. He describes and analyzes the key decisions that formed labor and industrial policy in the iron and steel industry during a period of growth that remains unparalled in American business history.Not only an industrial biography of a driving force in American industry and the organization of American business, Triumphant Capitolism, now available in paperback, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the basic industries, the shaping of society, locality, and region - and thereby of laying the foundations for the value systems and landscapes of present-day America.