Henry Clay : : the Essential American
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The slashes -- "My hopes were more than realized" -- "Puppyism" -- The hawk and the gambler -- Uncompromising compromiser -- "I injured both him and myself" -- A thousand cuts -- Losing the bank, saving the Union -- Whig -- "I had rather be right than be president" -- Three campaigns -- Four letters -- "Death, ruthless death" -- The last gamble -- "What prodigies arise" -- "The best & almost only true friend".
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 in this rich and sweeping biography that vividly portrays all the drama of his times.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xxiv, 595 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400067268
140006726X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Heidler, Jeanne T.
SUBJECTS
Clay, Henry, -- 1777-1852.
United States. -- Congress -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.