Henry Clay : statesman for the Union
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Statesman for the Union
Robert V; Remini
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NEW YoOoRK: LONDON
FRONTISPIECE PHOTOGRAPH: Henry Clay, painted by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1845. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
The illustration on page xxiii is of Henry Clay’s home, Ashland. From a drawing by W. Lewis.
Copyright © 1991 by Robert V. Remini. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of
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The text of this book is composed in Galliard, with the display set in Caslon Shaded and Garamond Oldstyle. Composition and manufacturing by the Haddon Craftsmen. Genealogy chart by Ben Gamit. Book design by Marjonte J. Flock.
Library of Congress Cataloging—in—Publication Data Remini, Robert Vincent, 1921-
Henry Clay: statesman for the Union/ Robert V. Remini. Deco:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. 2. Legislators—United States— Biography. 3. United States. Congress—Biography. 4. United States—Politics and government—1815-1861. I. Title E340.C6R46 1991 973.5’092—dc20 [B] 91-9438
ISBN 0-393-03004—0
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 W. W. Norton & Company, Ltd., 10 Coptic Street, London WCI1A 1PU 1234567890
In memory of my brothers Vincent J. and William C. Remim
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Contents
Preface
Chronology of Clay’s Life, 1777-1852 Genealogy of the Clay Famuly
Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in the Notes
. The Mill Boy of the Slashes
. Kentucky: The Dark and Bloody Ground . The Burr Conspiracy
. The Duel
. Emergence of a Republican Ideologue
. Mr. Speaker
. The Diplomat
. “T Am Sick of Europe”
. The Ambitious Politicians
. The Party Disrupter
. The Great Compromiser
. Retirement from Politics
. The American System
. The Presidential Election of 1824
. The “Corrupt Bargain”
. Secretary of State
. The Discouraging World of Diplomacy . Abominations
. A Vision of the Future
. Enforced Retirement
. Presidential Nominee
. “Scenes of Tergiversation, Hypocricy, Degeneracy and Corruption”
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Among nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress who helped preserve the Union in the antebellum period. Remini portrays both the statesman and the private man, a man whose family life was painfully torn and who burned with ambition for the office he could not reach, the presidency.--From publisher description
Includes bibliographical references and index
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