Title:
Indivisible : Daniel Webster and the birth of American nationalism / Joel Richard Paul.
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9780593189047
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Publication Information:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
xx, 504 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Independence Day 1801 -- Independence Day 1861 -- Independence Day 1812 -- Disunion 1814-1815 -- The Longest Winter 1815-1818 -- Panic 1819 -- The American in the Wilderness 1818-1822 -- Stealing Florida 1818-1822 -- "Leave the continent to us" 1818-1823 -- "The land is not wholly free" 1820-1821 -- "Godlike Daniel" 1824-1825 -- "The corrupt bargain" 1824-1825 -- "Lighthouses of the sky" 1825-1827 -- The Earthquake 1828 -- The Populist Revolt 1829-1839 -- "What is reform?" 1829-1832 -- "Liberty and union" 1830 -- "The magician and his tricks" 1830-1832 -- "A few thousand savages" 1830-1832 -- Nullification 1832 -- "The monster bank" 1833 -- "Van Ruin" 1835-1839 -- "Savage cruelties" 1837-1840 -- Fire on the Falls 1837-1839 -- "His Accidency" 1839-1841 -- "Prepare for war" 1841-1842 -- The Red Line 1841-1842 -- "Manifest Destiny" 1842-1845 -- "Young America" 1836-1850 -- "Fifty-four forty or fight!" 1845-1848 -- "A war of conquest" 1845-1846 -- "Ours is a government of the white man" 1846-1848 -- "Old Rough and Ready" 1847-1850 -- The Compromise 1850 -- Union Without Liberty 1850-1852 -- Will the Union Endure? 1851-1852.
Summary:
"In Indivisible, historian and law professor Joel Richard Paul tells how Daniel Webster, a young New Hampshire attorney turned politician, rose to national prominence through his powerful oratory and popularized the ideals of American nationalism that helped forge our nation's identity. In his speeches, Webster argued that the Constitution was not a compact made by states but an expression of the will of all Americans. As these ideas took root, they influenced future leaders, among them Abraham Lincoln, who drew on them to hold the nation together during the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1294918918
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