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portada Three Speeches That Saved the Union. Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.7x16.2x2.5 cm
ISBN13
9781479838837

Three Speeches That Saved the Union. Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850

Peter Charles Hoffer (Author) · New York University Press · Hardcover

Three Speeches That Saved the Union. Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850 - Peter Charles Hoffer

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Synopsis "Three Speeches That Saved the Union. Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850"


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\nHow three skilled orators navigated a polarized political landscape For the generation of politicians who inherited the Republic and the Union, the opening months of 1850 were a desperate time filled with increasing animosity between free and slave state leaders over issues of the expansion of slavery. Following the end of the Mexican-American War and the subsequent expansion of American territory came a series of fiery debates over how this new territory would be governed, and whether to allow California's admission to the Union as a "free state." Three Speeches That Saved the Union provides the first ever deep content analysis of the three most eventful speeches delivered in the Us Senate. Historian Peter Charles Hoffer offers a thorough analytical study of the roles of the "great triumvirate" of American political leaders – Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster – played in preserving the American Union. All three were lawyers, and for lawyers especially, words mattered. As is the case today, practicing law meant knowing and using "terms of art" correctly, and knowing which words would sway a jury – or a nation. Despite their opposing viewpoints, these skilled orators urged for some kind of compromise that would diffuse the possibility of civil war. Providing all three speeches in their entirety, alongside a running commentary framing the political climate and manner in which each of these speeches were delivered, Hoffer demonstrates how intractable the slavery issue had become, how near a civil war was, and how it was prevented – at least for a time. Three Speeches That Saved the Union is an invaluable study of a nation that three speeches pulled from the brink of dissolution.

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