The Great Triumvirate

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0195056868 ISBN13: 9780195056860 Release Date: December 1988 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 582 Pages Weight: 2.00 lbs. Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.2" Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly re-creates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. Arriving on the national scene at the onset of the War of 1812 and departing political life during the ordeal of the Union in 1850-52, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun opened--and closed--a new era in American politics. In outlook and style, they represented startling contrasts: Webster, the Federalist a