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The great triumvirate : Webster, Clay, and Calhoun / Merrill D. Peterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Merrill D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- United States.
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
- Webster, Daniel.
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
- Clay, Henry.
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850.
- Calhoun, John C.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (600 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a joint biography of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the most prominent of the second generation of American statesmen, from 1812 until 1850.
- Contents:
- Contents; One: Paths to Power; Two: Dimensions of Nationalism; Three: The Political Crossroads; Four: Liberty and Union; Five: The Embattled Senators; Six: The Whig Debacle; Seven: Private Lives, Public Images; Eight: Ordeal of the Union; Epilogue; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-983923-9
- 1-280-52368-9
- 9786610523689
- 0-19-802094-5
- OCLC:
- 476013544
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