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A compelling new biography of America's most powerful speaker of the House, who held the divided nation together for three decades and who was Lincoln's guiding light.
In a little-known chapter of early American history, a fearless Kentucky lawyer rids Congress of corruption and violence in an era when congressmen debated with bullets as well as ballots. Harlow Giles Unger reveals how Henry Clay, the youngest congressman ever elected speaker of the House, rewrote congressional rules and established the speaker as the most powerful elected official after the president.
During five decades of public service - as congressman, senator, secretary of state, and four-time presidential candidate - Clay produced historic compromises that postponed civil war for 50 years. Lincoln called Clay "the man for whom I fought all my life".
An action-packed narrative history, Henry Clay is the story of one of the most courageous congressmen in American history.
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Charismatic, charming, and one of the best orators of his era, Henry Clay seemed to have it all. He offered a comprehensive plan of change for America, and he directed national affairs as Speaker of the House, as Secretary of State to John Quincy Adams - the man he put in office - and as acknowledged leader of the Whig party. As the broker of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay fought to keep a young nation united when westward expansion and slavery threatened to tear it apart. Yet, despite his talent and achievements, Henry Clay never became president.
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Wonderful book by a talented writer and historian
- De Timothy en 08-24-18
De: James C. Klotter
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Henry Clay
- The Essential American
- De: David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 30 h y 27 m
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He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography.
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"probably" "possibly" "maybe" "could have"
- De Thor Finn en 08-10-18
De: David S. Heidler, y otros
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
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In the early 1800s, 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. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery.
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- De Jean en 12-04-18
De: H. W. Brands
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John Marshall
- The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
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A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nation. In the political turmoil that convulsed America after George Washington's death, the surviving Founding Fathers went mad - literally pummeling each other in Congress and challenging one another to deadly duels in their quest for power. Out of the political intrigue, one man emerged to restore calm and dignity to the government: John Marshall.
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the life and times of John Marshall
- De Michael Z. en 03-17-15
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Lafayette
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
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In this gripping biography, acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger paints an intimate portrait of the heroic young French soldier who, at 19, renounced a life of luxury in Paris and Versailles to fight and bleed for liberty - at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown. A major general in the Continental army, he quickly earned the love of his troops, his fellow commanders, and his commander in chief, George Washington, who called him his "adopted son".
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WE GET IT! HE'S A "KNIGHT"
- De Anonymous User en 01-13-22
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The Last Founding Father
- James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
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In this lively and compelling biography, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751 - 1831) went on to become America's first full-time politician, dedicating his life to securing America's national and international durability.
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Readable, but more hero worship than history
- De Elaine Martin en 12-22-10
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John Hancock
- Merchant King and American Patriot
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
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John Hancock's overnight transformation from British loyalist to fiery rebel and first governor of the independent state of Massachusetts is one of the least known stories of the American Revolution. Acclaimed author Harlow Giles Unger introduces us to the Founding Father whose name is as recognizable as George Washington's, but whose thrilling life story is all but untold. Applying his historical expertise and storytelling gift, Unger details the fascinating life of one of our most extraordinary business and political leaders—the first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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An easy read
- De Jean en 05-31-23
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Bismarck
- The Man and the Statesman
- De: A.J.P. Taylor
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
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In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s and his removal from office in 1890.
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Good, but read a primer first
- De Paolo Menuez en 06-12-18
De: A.J.P. Taylor
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Polk
- The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
- De: Walter R. Borneman
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
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This is a major political biography of a great American president - who won a war, transformed the government, and doubled the size of the United States...in four years. When Polk was sworn in as the 11th president, what followed was one of the most consequential presidencies in history.
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Polk: One of our most important Preidents
- De Rik GNV en 10-12-08
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Lion of Liberty
- Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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Known to generations of Americans for his stirring call to arms, “Give me liberty or give me death,” Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights. If Washington was the “Sword of the Revolution” and Jefferson, “the Pen,” Patrick Henry more than earned his epithet as “the Trumpet” of the Revolution for rousing Americans to arms in the Revolutionary War.
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A Decent Book on an Amazing Character
- De David I. Williams en 05-13-13
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John Quincy Adams
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years.
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Informative and well written.
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-20-14
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Metternich
- Strategist and Visionary
- De: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 36 h y 57 m
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Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized.
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Very intensely researched
- De PDH en 04-11-23
De: Wolfram Siemann, y otros
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His Excellency
- George Washington
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.
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Ellis is a known liar
- De Theresa en 02-21-05
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Hubert Humphrey
- The Conscience of the Country
- De: Arnold A. Offner
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
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Hubert Humphrey was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office, he has been largely overlooked by biographers. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphrey's life, giving us previously unknown details of the vice president's fractious relationship with Lyndon Johnson, showing how Johnson colluded with Richard Nixon to deny Humphrey the presidency, and describing the most neglected aspect of Humphrey's career.
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Outstanding Biography
- De Jean en 12-18-18
De: Arnold A. Offner
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A Country of Vast Designs
- James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
- De: Robert W. Merry
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
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When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas---what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and part of Colorado---belonged to Mexico.
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A Decent Overview of Polk's Presidency
- De James en 06-20-10
De: Robert W. Merry
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Improbable Patriot
- The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
- De: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was an 18th-century French inventor, famed playwright, and upstart near-aristocrat in the court of King Louis XVI. In 1776, he conceived an audacious plan to send aid to the American rebels. What's more, he convinced the king to bankroll the project, and singlehandedly carried it out. By war's end, he had supplied Washington's army with most of its weapons and powder, though he was never paid or acknowledged by the United States. To some, he was a dashing hero - a towering intellect who saved the American Revolution. To others, he was pure rogue.
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- De Sharon en 07-27-19
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A Wicked War
- Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
- De: Amy S. Greenberg
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer
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A Wicked War presents the definitive history of the 1846 war between the United States and Mexico - a conflict that turned America into a continental power. Amy Greenberg describes the battles between American and Mexican armies, but also delineates the political battles between Democrats and Whigs - the former led by the ruthless Polk, the latter by the charismatic Henry Clay and a young representative from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln. Greenberg brilliantly recounts this key chapter in the creation of the United States authority and narrative flair.
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Rubbish Historical Work, Lots of Fake Stuff
- De Jose en 04-28-17
De: Amy S. Greenberg
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Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
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Battle Cry of Freedom vividly traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged for four years and cost more American lives than all other wars combined. Narrator Jonathan Davis powerful reading brings to life the many voices of the Civil War.
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Excellent Book
- De J. Weston en 12-11-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Henry Clay
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- Stephen
- 05-22-17
Henry Clay - Better to Right than President
Book: This is interesting review of person who was integral to the development of the US between the American Revolution and the American Civil War. He was very much a person of the times with the usual vices and prejudices as well as force of mind, principles, intellectual, and courage. The reading provides context to the period and re-enforces the tragic flaw of the US since its founding: the division in the union finding its pinnacle in the institution of slavery.
Performance: Very good. No issues.
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- Owen Cook
- 05-04-22
Lively and accessible bio
The editorial tone is a bit too uncritical, but there is so much to like about Clay in spite of his faults that I enjoyed it very much anyway. There are some errors of fact (e.g. stating that Congress adopted the Compromise of 1850 as Clay wished, directly after his speech, rather than after it was separated into different bills by Douglas et al.) as well as errors of terminology (e.g. any kind of anti-slavery opinion is called "abolitionist", while the abolitionists are called "ultra-abolitionists").
The quality of the reading is superb. Direct quotes are done as a monotone mumble, but this is my only quibble. Even when the reader mispronounces words, he does so with confidence and panache. All in all, a very enjoyable listen.
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- Amazing
- 01-08-22
Americans: Learn your country's history. Talk shows will not teach it
This biography gives a real human touch to formation of American history. Henry Clay is no longer for me just an historical name lacking details. Learn your history or be doomed to repeat it. I kept an open mind when deciding to "read" it. Lot more useful then mob behavior toppling memorials or desecrating ignorantly. Same as burning books. America is still a young country despite its wealth and military power. Do not rely on CNN or similar news media to learn about key historical personages who laid the bricks for our dynamic democracy. There is nothing new under the sun;so engage with the past to handle the present more effectively--especially if newly arrived to the USA. Give me more Audible books like Henry Clays biography.
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- Anderson_1
- 03-09-24
Thank you Audible and Mr.Unger.
This was worthwhile in my perspective, even potentially during the eschaton, the end of all things 🌀🌍🌎🌏🌐💔😥🙏🏻🇺🇲🙏🏻💠.
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- Matthew Dejewski
- 02-15-22
Good Information!
Well read! The story was interesting, but sometimes repetitive.
I would recommend. Definitely leads right into Lincoln.
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- suzy-q
- 05-27-24
Excellent history of a patriot long forgotten
Having lived in San Francisco, I always wondered after whom Clay street was named. Now I know. I learned much history about the early half of the 19th century from this book.
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- Larry Gibbs
- 11-06-20
great narration
excellent history of both the man and his time in history. narration is pleasant, the best.
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- J.
- 10-26-20
Insightful
I did not really know much about Henry Clay before reading this. Despite all the information here, I kept expecting more than what was provided. Overall good.
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- Carissa B
- 07-26-24
Informative biography of a statesman
Henry Clay was born during the Revolutionary War and died nine years before the Civil War. I knew almost nothing about him prior to this book and very little about the period of the early Republic. He was a fascinating individual whose life was entwined with the most consequential men of his age - John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and others. Although the issue of slavery was ever-present during Clay’s life (and he himself embodied the contradictions of many statesmen of the time), it was not the only issue. His “American System” and dedication to forming a nation out of disparate states was very important to the development of our country. I highly recommend this book.
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- IJ
- 11-26-21
Henry Clay – this is someone every American should know about
This is an excellently written book.
Henry Clay lived a fascinating life that included more than one duel. After reading this book you can clearly see how and why Abraham Lincoln viewed Henry Clay as his hero.
You will appreciate this book.
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