Great Triumvirate - Webster, Clay, and Calhoun

Zusatztext `A "thorough and scholarly" account of three enduring symbols of congressional leadership.' L.A.Times Informationen zum Autor Merrill D. Peterson is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia. A winner of the Bancroft Prize and a former Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of numerous books, including The Jefferson Image in the American Mind and Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. Klappentext Peterson brings to life the great events in which the Triumvirate figures so Prominently. Zusammenfassung This is a joint biography of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the most prominent of the second generation of American statesmen, from 1812 until 1850.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Merrill D. Peterson, Merrill D. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Peterson, Merrill D. (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Peterson, Peterson Merrill D.
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 08.12.1988
• EAN: 9780195056860
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505686-0
• Pages: 584
• Thème: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Politics & government, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military