Bibliograph

Daniel Webster, the man and his time, Robert V. Remini

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Daniel Webster, the man and his time, Robert V. Remini

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [765]-772) and index

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individual biography

Illustrations

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Daniel Webster

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

21387837109201

Responsibility statement

Robert V. Remini

Sub title

the man and his time

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

The godlike Daniel and Black Dan -- Dartmouth -- "School keeping" and the law -- Portsmouth -- Congress -- The Supreme Court -- The Dartmouth College case -- Nationalism and conservatism -- The Plymouth oration -- An expanding reputation -- The steamboat case -- "The Demosthenes of America" -- The Bunker Hill oration -- The "godlike Daniel" -- Election to the Senate -- "Poor Grace has gone to Heaven" -- Marriage -- The Webster-Hayne debate -- Presidential politics -- Marshfield -- The bank war -- Nullification -- On the presidential trail -- The great triumvirate -- The Whig Party -- The presidential nomination -- A humiliating defeat -- The Charles River Bridge case -- Panic! -- Europe -- Secretary of State -- "I will stay where I am" -- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty -- Formulating foreign policy -- "The return of the prodigal son" -- Charges of official misconduct -- A tour of the south -- A double tragedy -- "I am old, and poor, and proud" -- The seventh of March speech -- "Union, Union, Union, now and forever" -- Exploring new channels for commerce -- "A disappointed, heart-stricken man" -- "That voice, alas! We shall hear no more forever."

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