Bordewich, Fergus M.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-463) and index.
- 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! Peaceful 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.
- 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.
Subjects:
- Compromise of 1850.
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
- Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
- United States — Politics and government — 1815-1861.
- Slavery — United States — History — 19th century.
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Causes.
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