![]() Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. In the early days of the nineteenth century, 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. The riveting story of how America’s second generation of political giants - Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun - battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. Heirs to the Founders is due to be published by Doubleday in November 2018 (in North America and in the UK). ![]() (Sort of - they were all active during some of the founding administrations, but they outlasted them all.) As contemporary politics devolves into horrifying farce, there has rarely been a better time in which to revisit the early years of American politics: messy, contentious, often violent, and yet fascinating. ![]() ![]() Brands‘s latest book, the acclaimed historian turns his attention to the three men whose political careers had lasting impact on the United States after the Founding generation had left the stage: Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster. ![]()
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