![]() ![]() Thirty years ago, Merrill Peterson wrote “The Great Triumvirate.” Since then, several biographies of Clay, Calhoun and Webster have appeared, along with dozens of books assessing their impact on American politics.īrands does not challenge current interpretations of American politics in the first half of the 19th century or the roles played by his protagonists. “Heirs of the Founders” enters a crowded field. Brands, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and author of “Andrew Jackson,” “Lone Star Nation” and “The Age of Gold,” among other books, draws on the personal correspondence and public addresses of Clay, Calhoun and Webster to provide a political history of antebellum America. Not coincidentally, some historians suggest, when they left the political stage, the United States plunged into the Civil War. Promoting the interests of the West, South and North, these three great orators played pivotal roles in the controversies of their era: the War of 1812, internal improvements of banks, tariffs and slavery. ![]() ![]() Calhoun and Daniel Webster - dominated American politics. In the first half of the 19th century, “the Great Triumvirate” - Henry Clay, John C. ![]()
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