At the edge of the precipice : Henry Clay and the compromise that saved the Union /
"At the Edge of the Precipice" is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civi...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Compromise in the nation's early history
- The crisis and the return of the Great Pacificator
- A possible solution
- The Great Triumvirate weighs in
- Disaster
- Douglas to the rescue
- Aftermath.