![]() ![]() They were in and out and back in Congress. They served in various roles in various presidential cabinets. For good and bad, their fingerprints are all over those decades. And while they are forever in the shadow of the Founders and failed to resolve slavery and keep the country from the Civil War, they were indeed giants of their era. Brands' "Heirs of the Founders: The Second Generation of American Giants," Clay, Calhoun and Webster take the main stage. The Era of Good Feelings, of one-term presidencies, of American expansion westward, of compromises between free and slave states. ![]() The era when, with the exception of Jackson, none of the presidents seems to be well remembered from the last of the Revolutionary War figures in the White House and Lincoln. They are usually supporting characters in books about the War of 1812, the years leading up to the Civil War, the Mexican War, the annexation of Texas, in biographies of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, etc.īut they were major figures in that murky era of American history between the nation's founding and the Civil War. 22-Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster always seem to be lurking in the pages of history. ![]()
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