![]() ![]() ![]() Above all, they sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its fudge on where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. Together this second generation of American founders took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency, and tasked themselves with finishing the work the Founders had left undone. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. 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. Brands comes 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. ![]() BRANDS! From New York Times bestselling historian H. ![]()
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