America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union / Fergus M. Bordewich.
The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in U.S. Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union.
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- ISBN: 9781439124611
- ISBN: 1439124612
- Physical Description: x, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012, 2013.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "A frenzy seized my soul" -- One bold stroke -- "Order! Order! Order!" -- "That demon question" -- "Ultima Thule" -- Old Harry -- "We have another epidemic" -- "The city of magnificent intentions" -- Deadlock -- The godlike Daniel -- "A great soul on fire" -- "Wounded eagle" -- "Secession! Peaceable secession!" -- "A higher law" -- "God deliver me from such friends" -- "He is not dead, sir" -- "Let the assassin fire!" -- Filibusters -- "A legislative saturnalia" -- A pact with the Devil -- "War, open war" -- "All is paralysis" -- The omnibus overturned -- "A steam engine in britches" -- "Break your masters' locks" -- "It is time we should act" -- Triumphs -- "A scandalous outrage" -- The reckoning. |
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505 | 0 | . | ‡a"A frenzy seized my soul" -- One bold stroke -- "Order! Order! Order!" -- "That demon question" -- "Ultima Thule" -- Old Harry -- "We have another epidemic" -- "The city of magnificent intentions" -- Deadlock -- The godlike Daniel -- "A great soul on fire" -- "Wounded eagle" -- "Secession! Peaceable secession!" -- "A higher law" -- "God deliver me from such friends" -- "He is not dead, sir" -- "Let the assassin fire!" -- Filibusters -- "A legislative saturnalia" -- A pact with the Devil -- "War, open war" -- "All is paralysis" -- The omnibus overturned -- "A steam engine in britches" -- "Break your masters' locks" -- "It is time we should act" -- Triumphs -- "A scandalous outrage" -- The reckoning. |
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