The Private Life of Daniel Webster
Author: Charles Lanman
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 336
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Author: Charles Lanman
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 336
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Lanman
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
Published: 2006-09-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781425518615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9780393045529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Joseph Banvard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-17
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3385220203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Craig R. Smith
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0826264298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Daniel Webster (1782-1852) embodied the golden age of oratory in America by mastering each of the major genres of public speaking of the time. Even today, many of his victories before the Supreme Court remain as precedents. Webster served in the House, the Senate, and twice as secretary of state. He was so famous as a political orator that his reply "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" to Senator Robert Hayne in a debate in 1830 was memorized by schoolboys and was on the lips of Northern soldiers as they charged forward in the Civil War. There would have been no 1850 Compromise without Webster, and without the Compromise, the Civil War might well have come earlier to an unprepared North. Webster was also the consummate ceremonial speaker. He advanced Whig virtues and solidified support for the Union through civil religion, creating a transcendent symbol for the nation that became a metaphor for the working constitutional framework. While several biographies have been written about Webster, none has focused on his oratorical talent. This study examines Webster's incredible career from the perspective of his great speeches and how they created a civil religion that moved citizens beyond loyalty and civic virtue to true romantic patriotism. Craig R. Smith places Webster's speeches in their historical context and then uses the tools of rhetorical criticism to analyze them. He demonstrates that Webster understood not only how rhetorical genres function to meet the expectations of the moment but also how they could be braided to produce long-lasting and literate discourse
Author: Harold D. Moser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2005-03-30
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 0313068674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel Webster captured the hearts and imagination of the American people of the first half of the nineteenth century. This bibliography on Webster brings together for the first time a comprehensive guide to the vast amount of literature written by and about this extraordinary man who dwarfed most of his contemporaries. This bibliography also provides references to materials on slavery, the tariff, banking, Indian affairs, legal and constitutional development, international affairs, western expansion, and economic and political developments in general. This bibliography is divided into fifteen sections and covers every aspect of Webster's distinguished career. Sections I and II deal primarily with Webster's writings and with those of his contemporaries. Sections III through X cover the literature dealing with his family background; childhood and education, his long service in the United States House of Representatives and in the Senate, his two stints as secretary of state, and his career in law. Section X provides guidance in locating materials relating to his associates. Finally, Sections XI through XV provide coverage of his personal life, his death, historiographical materials, and iconography.
Author: Charles Lanman
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sydney George Fisher
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1434465195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "True" Biographies and Histories.The aim of this unique series of biographies and histories is to present in entertaining form, free from glamor, some of the greatest characters and epochs in our national history, and with as close fidelity to the truth as can be gleaned from the conflicting record of events.
Author: Ilyon Woo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-01-16
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1501191063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their very existence challenged the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all. -- Adapted from jacket.