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America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union / Fergus M. Bordewich.

by Bordewich, Fergus M.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.

Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.

Compromise of 1850.

Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011029547-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1116/2011029547-d.html

9781439124604 (hc) :

1439124604 (hc)

x, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

"A frenzy seized my soul" -- One bold stroke -- "Order! order! order!" -- That demon question -- Ultima thule -- One of nature's nobles -- "We have another epidemic" -- The city of magnificent intentions -- Deadlock -- The godlike Daniel -- A great soul on fire -- Wounded eagle -- "Secession! peaceful secession!" -- A higher law -- A man of unbounded confidence -- "He is not dead, sir!" -- "Let the assassin fire!" -- Filibusters -- A legislative saturnalia -- A pact with the devil -- "War, open war" -- "All is paralysis" -- The wreck of the Omnibus -- A steam engine in britches -- "Break your masters' locks!" -- "It is time we should act" -- Triumphs -- A scandalous outrage.

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.

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