Daniel Webster

Author : Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393045529
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Webster written by Robert Vincent Remini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the "great triumvirate", Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822203032
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil and Daniel Webster written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1943-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.

Author : Maurice Glen Baxter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674638211
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One and Inseparable written by Maurice Glen Baxter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One and Inseparable traces the interrelated evolution of the public career and the private life of this imposing and controversial Yankee. Reading Baxter's lucid, moving biography it is possible to understand why Ralph Waldo Emerson so detested Daniel Webster but also called him "the completest man" produced by America.

Author : Richard Nelson Current
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism written by Richard Nelson Current and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542542
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heirs of the Founders written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reply to Hayne written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maurice Glen Baxter
Publisher : [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Webster & the Supreme Court written by Maurice Glen Baxter and published by [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webster, a staunch nationalist and firm protector of property rights, exerted a strong influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Court began its historic function of interpreting the Constitution.

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Webster ... written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732647412
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Webster written by Daniel Webster and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Daniel Webster written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: