Americas Great Debate Henry Clay Stephen A Douglas And The Compromise That Preserved The Union Bordewich by Bordewich, Fergus M instant download after payment.

x, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm, 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, Includes bibliographical references (pages 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! 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