Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The Letters of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Daniel Webster
Author: Robert Vincent ReminiPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393045529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the "great triumvirate", Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence.
Speeches
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732647374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Speeches by Daniel Webster
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Author: Stephen Vincent BenetPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822203032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
The Letters of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Reply to Hayne
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foot's resolution, 1829
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Letters of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reply to Webster. A letter to Daniel Webster ... in reply to his legal opinion to Baring, Brothers & Co. upon the illegality and unconstitutionality of state bonds, and loans of state credit. By Junius
Author: The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
Author: Daniel WebsterPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Heirs of the Founders
Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385542542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From New York Times 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 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 orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.