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Author : George Rawlings Poage
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Henry Clay and the Whig Party written by George Rawlings Poage and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1965 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael F. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830894
Total Pages : 1298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party written by Michael F. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.
Author : Joseph W. Pearson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179750
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Whigs' America written by Joseph W. Pearson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passionate political disagreement is as old as the American Republic, and the antebellum era—the thirty years before the Civil War—was as rife with partisan discord as any in our history. From 1834 to 1856, the Whigs battled their opponents, the Jacksonian Democrats, for offices, prestige, and power. The partisan expression of America's rising middle class, the Whigs boasted such famous members as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and William Henry Seward, and the party supported tariffs, banks, internal improvements, moral reform, and public education. In The Whigs' America, Joseph W. Pearson explores a variety of topics, including the Whigs' understanding of the role of the individual in American politics, their perceptions of political power and the rule of law, and their impressions of the past and what should be learned from history. Long dismissed as a party bereft of ideas, Pearson provides a counterbalance to this trend through an attentive examination of writings from party leaders, contemporaneous newspapers, and other sources. Throughout, he shows that the party attracted optimistic Americans seeking achievement, community, and meaning through collaborative effort and self-control in a world growing more and more impersonal. Pearson effectively demonstrates that, while the Whigs never achieved the electoral success of their opponents, they were rich with ideas. His detailed study adds complexity and nuance to the history of the antebellum era by illuminating significant aspects of a deeply felt, shared culture that informed and shaped a changing nation.
Author : George Rawlings Poage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Henry Clay and the Disruption of the Whig Party in 1841 written by George Rawlings Poage and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Clay
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813156734
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Henry Clay written by Henry Clay and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the formation of national policy, and few influenced so profoundly the growth of American political institutions. The year 1837 found Henry Clay hard at work in a successful effort to organize and strengthen the new Whig party. In his attempt to provide for it an ideological core, he emphasized restoration of the Bank of the United States, distribution of the treasury surplus to the states, continued adherence to his Compromise Tariff Act of 1833, and federal funding of internal improvements. The achievement of these goals, Clay reasoned, would mitigate the severe impact of the Depression of 1837 and sweep the Whigs into the White House in 1840. Soon after the election of 1836, Clay began running again for the presidency. By 1838 it was clear to him that he would have to come to grips politically with the long-muted slavery question. This he did in February 1839 in a Senate speech that was so proslavery, anti-abolitionist, and racially extremist that it cost him the Whig presidential nomination at the Harrisburg convention in December 1839. William Henry Harrison was nominated in his stead and won handily. But one month after his inauguration Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler, a states' rights Democrat turned Whig, was elevated to the presidency. Senator Clay emerged from his disappointment at Harrisburg as the acknowledged leader of the Whig party and further unified it in a wide-ranging assault on the Tyler administration's refusal to support Whig principles. By the end of 1843 Tyler had been broken, the Whig party was Clay's to lead, and the Kentuckian was again in the presidential lists. Confident that 1844 would surely be his year, Clay unfortunately failed to see the formation and growth of the black cloud that was Texas annexation. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Author : Henry Clay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Henry Clay and the Administration. A tract for the times. No. 1. ... By a Friend of the Union written by Henry Clay and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Clay
Publisher : Lexington : University of Kentucky Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Henry Clay written by Henry Clay and published by Lexington : University of Kentucky Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author : Carl Schurz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Life of Henry Clay written by Carl Schurz and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Gerhardt
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062877208
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Mentors written by Michael J. Gerhardt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership “Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be." –H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround? As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would become his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time. Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.
Author : Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393310887
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Henry Clay written by Robert Vincent Remini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
ISBN 13 : 1588369951
Total Pages : 1229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Henry Clay written by David S. Heidler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 1229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Maurice Glen Baxter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813129105
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Henry Clay the Lawyer written by Maurice Glen Baxter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Epes Sargent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay written by Epes Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226354792
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Political Culture of the American Whigs written by Daniel Walker Howe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.
Author : Calvin Colton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay written by Calvin Colton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Schurz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Henry Clay written by Carl Schurz and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life, Correspondence and Speeches of Henry Clay in Six Volumes written by Colton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
