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Pub. Date

[c1959-]

Language

English

2) The life and speeches

Author

Pub. Date

1860.

Language

English

3) The private correspondence of Henry Clay

Author

Pub. Date

1856.

Language

English

4) An address of Henry Clay, to the public: containing certain testimony, in refutation of the charges against him by Gen. Andrew Jackson, touching the last presidential election

Author

United States. Congress. Senate

Pub. Date

1828.

Language

English

5) In Senate of the United States, January 9, 1832. -- Submitted for consideration, and ordered to be printed. January 10 -- Made the order of the day for the 11th instant. January...

Author

Series

United States congressional serial set volume serial no. 212
Senate document volume 22nd Congress, 1st session, no. 23

Pub. Date

1832.

Language

English

6) Treaties with Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of a convention between the United States and the Free Hanseatic...

Author

United States. Congress. House

Series

House document volume 20th Congress, 2nd session, no. 92
United States congressional serial set volume serial no. 186

Pub. Date

1829.

Language

English

7) Pledge of the U. States to the governments of Mexico and S. America. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the information required by the resolution of...

Author

United States. Congress. House

Series

United States congressional serial set volume serial no. 138
House document volume 19th Congress, 1st session, no. 142

Pub. Date

1826.

Language

English

8) Treaty with Eel River Indians: Message from the president of the United States, transmitting a copy of a treaty concluded on the 11th of February last, with the Eel River or Thornton Party of Miami Indians. :...

Author

Miami Tribe

Series

House document volume 20th Congress, 1st session, no. 279

Pub. Date

1828.

Language

English

9) Debate, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Seminole War, in January and February, 1819

Author

United States. Congress House

Pub. Date

1819

Language

English

Description

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

Extracted pages from the January, 1819, Niles' weekly register, collected by Mark F. Boyd. It was resolved that the House of Representatives disapproved the proceedings in the trial and execution of Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister, and there was discussion of relations with the Seminoles and Creeks with much reportage by Representative Thomas W. Cobb of Georgia, John Holmes of Massachusetts, Speaker Henry Clay, James Johnson of Kentucky,...

10) Heirs of the founders: the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants

Author

Brands, H. W

Language

English

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Description

"From ... bestselling historian H.W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and to decide the future of our democracy. In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion...

11) Henry Clay : the essential American

Author

Heidler, David S

Language

English

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Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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...

12) A wicked war: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico

Author

Greenberg, Amy S

Language

English

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Description

A critical assessment of the Mexican-American war and its divisive role in U.S. politics also evaluates its impact on the careers of James Polk, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln and how it set the stage for the American Civil War.

13) Henry Clay: the man who would be president

Author

Klotter, James C

Language

English

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Description

"Charismatic, charming, and one of the best orators of his era, Henry Clay seemed to have it all. He offered a comprehensive plan of change for America, and directed national affairs as Speaker of the House, secretary of state to John Quincy Adams--the man he put in office--and acknowledged leader of the Whig Party. As the broker of the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay fought to keep a young nation united when westward expansion...

14) Henry Clay, America's greatest statesman

Author

Unger, Harlow G

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

15) At the edge of the precipice: Henry Clay and the compromise that saved the Union

Author

Remini, Robert V

Language

English

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Description

"At the Edge of the Precipice" is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare.

16) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Language

English

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Description

The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in U.S. Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union.

17) Henry Clay: the essential American

Author

Heidler, David Stephen

Pub. Date

[2010]

Language

English

Description

Childhood of famous Americans

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.

18) Henry Clay: young Kentucky orator

Author

Monsell, Helen Albee

Series

Pub. Date

1963.

Language

English

Description