Author : Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393310887
"Great biography leaves an indelible view of the subject. After Remini's masterful portrait, Clay is unforgettable." --Donald B. Cole, Newsday
Author : David S. Heidler
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588369951
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 : Samuel Mosheim Smucker
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Calvin COLTON
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Calvin Colton
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Calvin Colton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Calvin Colton
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781340376604
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Author : Lindsey Apple
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0813134110
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 : Calvin Colton
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Harlow Giles Unger
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306823926
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.
