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. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in 19th-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 W.From New York Times best-selling historian H.

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Users who like Heirs of the Founders by H.Brands narrates the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy. But by then they were never further apart. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the union as a free state, 'the three great men of America' had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the union together, but only just.

Above all, they sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its fudge on where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. Together this second generation of American founders took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency, and tasked themselves with finishing the work the Founders had left undone. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants-Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun-battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy.In the early days of the nineteenth century, 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. From New York Times bestselling historian H.

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