Author: Richard N. Current Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservation
Author: Richard N. Current The Papers of Henry Clay
Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162475
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This supplement to The Papers of Henry Clay contains documents discovered too late to be included in the proper chronological sequence in earlier volumes. Spanning the years from 1793 to 1852, the items shed important light on Clay's early years in Kentucky, his legal career, and his work for the Bank of the United States. Material dealing with the "Corrupt Bargain" charge is particularly rich, and many of the letters that appear in this volume fill gaps in exchanges already published. Clay's correspondence with Benjamin Watkins Lee of Virginia and Mary Bayard, wife of Delaware senator Richard Henry Bayard, is especially interesting. An essay on Clay portraits by Clifford Amyx, professor emeritus of art at the University of Kentucky, provides a detailed discussion of the paintings, statues, busts, engravings, and daguerreotypes that featured Clay as the subject. Appended to the essay is a calendar listing each major work, the artist, date of completion, and present location. A comprehensive bibliography of works cited in the entire series will benefit researchers seeking information in addition to that provided in the annotations. This supplement is an essential addition to the earlier volumes in the series.
The Intellectual Origins of Mass Parties and Mass Schools in the Jacksonian Period
Author: Julie M. WalshPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815333029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Argues that in the 1830s and 1840s, all three main US political parties, despite their rhetorical differences, maintained consensus about citizenship training through educating children, which produced the first generation of politically passive Americans content to vote loyally for their party and demand little or no input into the formation of its platform. This in turn, is seen as essential for building the type of political party that has endured since. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Secretary of State, 1825-1829
Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813130491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
For Secretary of State Henry Clay and the Adams administration, 1827 is a year of crisis. Turbulent relations with Latin America are marked by the seizure of American trading vessels off Montevideo. Border strife with Britain threatens in northern Maine, while American retaliation for the closing of the British West Indies to U.S. trade provokes warnings of war from the opposition in Congress. With the campaign for the next presidency in full swing, Clay is again forced to defend himself against Andrew Jackson's charges of "bribery and corruption." Opposition gains in the fall elections foreshadow Jackson's 1828 victory, but at year's end, the resilient Clay continues to hope. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Supplement, 1793-1852
Author: Henry ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Contents--v. 1. The rising statesman, 1797-1814.
1964 Paperbacks U.S.A.
Author: American Institute of Graphic ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book covers
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The New England Quarterly
Author: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: The Presidency of John Quincy Adams
Author: Mary W. M. HargreavesPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the "tariff of abominations." Some analysts have even argued that it generated the sectionalism which terminated the "Era of Good Feelings." Mary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of Adams's presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests. To ignore the Adams administration's commitment to nationalism, she argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of the federal government as guardian of the general interest. The volume contains new information on the development of United States commercial policy, the nation's early relationships with Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to all students of the economic and political history of the early national period.
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