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The Papers of Henry Clay

The Whig Leader, January 1, 1837-December 31, 1843

By: Henry Clay

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The Papers of Henry Clay

The Whig Leader, January 1, 1837-December 31, 1843

By: Henry Clay

The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the formation of national policy, and few influenced so profoundly the growth of American political institutions. The year 1837 found Henry Clay hard at work in a successful effort to organize and strengthen the new Whig party. In his attempt to provide for it an ideological core, he emphasized restoration of the Bank of the United States, distribution of the treasury surplus to the states, continued adherence to his Compromise Tariff Act of 1833, and federal funding of internal improvements. The achievement of these goals, Clay reasoned, would mitigate the severe impact of the Depression of 1837 and sweep the Whigs into the White House in 1840. Soon after the election of 1836, Clay began running again for the presidency. By 1838 it was clear to him that he would have to come to grips politically with the long-muted slavery question. This he did in February 1839 in a Senate speech that was so proslavery, anti-abolitionist, and racially extremist that it cost him the Whig presidential nomination at the Harrisburg convention in December 1839. William Henry Harrison was nominated in his stead and won handily. But one month after his inauguration Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler, a states' rights Democrat turned Whig, was elevated to the presidency. Senator Clay emerged from his disappointment at Harrisburg as the acknowledged leader of the Whig party and further unified it in a wide-ranging assault on the Tyler administration's refusal to support Whig principles. By the end of 1843 Tyler had been broken, the Whig party was Clay's to lead, and the Kentuckian was again in the presidential lists. Confident that 1844 would surely be his year, Clay unfortunately failed to see the formation and growth of the black cloud that was Texas annexation. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813156734

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9780813156736

The Contemporary Soviet City

By: Henry W. Morton,Robert C. Stuart

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The Contemporary Soviet City

By: Henry W. Morton,Robert C. Stuart

This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition.

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290

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Routledge

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1315495910

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9781315495910

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

By: William Henry Whitmore,William Summer Appleton,Edward Webster McGlenen,Walter Kendall Watkins

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A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

By: William Henry Whitmore,William Summer Appleton,Edward Webster McGlenen,Walter Kendall Watkins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.

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334

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385521777

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9783385521773

Letters

By: Henry James

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Letters

By: Henry James

This volume, the conclusion of Leon Edel's splendid edition, rounds off a half century of work on James by the noted biographer-critic. In the letters of the novelist's last twenty years a new Henry James is revealed. Edel's generous selection shows us, as he says, a "looser, less formal, less distant" personality, a man writing with greater candor and with more emotional freedom, who "has at last opened himself up to the physical things of life." The decade embracing the turn of the century is the most productive period of James's career. Happily settled in an English country house and now dictating to a typist, he is able to write The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl in three years. The letters show clearly how his fiction turned from his world-famous tales of international society to the life of passion in his last novels. His new friends and correspondents include Conrad, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, and several young men to whom he writes curious, half-inhibited love letters. Mrs. Wharton, with her chauffered "chariot of fire," introduces him to the thrill of motoring and welcomes him into her cosmopolitan circle; to him she embodies the affluence and driving energy of the America of the Gilded Age. For the first time in over twenty years he revisits his homeland, traveling not only in the East but through the South to Florida and west to California. He is dismayed by the materialism he finds and the changed ways of life. Back in England, he plunges into several projects; for the New York edition of his works he revises the early novels and writes his famous prefaces. His relations with agents and publishers as well as family and friends are fully documented in the letters, as are his trips to the Continent and visits with Edith Wharton in Paris. His last years are darkened by a long siege of nervous ill health and by the death of his beloved brother William. But he carries on, moves back to London, and continues to work. Among the most eloquent of all his letters are those describing his anguished reaction to the Great War. To show his allegiance to the Allied cause, he becomes a British citizen, six months before his death. The volume concludes with his "final and fading words" dictated on his deathbed.

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884

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Harvard University Press

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067438783X

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9780674387836

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876

Volume 1

By: Henry James

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The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876

Volume 1

By: Henry James

The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of topics—from James's own life and literary projects to broader questions on art, literature, and criticism—this edition is an indispensable resource for students of James and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism as well as for research libraries throughout North America and Europe and for scholars who specialize in James, the European novel, and modern literature. Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias have conceived this edition according to the exacting standards of the Committee on Scholarly Editions. This volume is the first of three to include James's letters from 1872 to 1876.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803222254

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9780803222250

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The Papers of Henry Clay

The Papers of Henry Clay

The Contemporary Soviet City

The Contemporary Soviet City

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. Containing the Selectmen's Minutes from 1754 Through 1763

Letters

Letters

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876

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