![]() When California moved to join the union as a free state They wrestled with these issues for four decadesĪrguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the union together With the states or the nation and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its fudge on where authority ultimately rested Together this second generation of American founders took the country to warĪnd tasked themselves with finishing the work the Founders had left undone. With piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellectĭefended the South and slavery. Henry Clay of KentuckyĮmbodied the hopes of the rising West. ![]() ![]() Spoke for the North and its business class. Daniel Webster of MassachusettsĪ champion orator known for his eloquence ![]() Three young men strode onto the national stageĮlected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. ![]() In the early days of the nineteenth century Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants-Henry ClayĪnd John Calhoun-battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. "From New York Times bestselling historian H. ![]()
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