I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President: Henry Clay Wins the Presidency - Softcover

Goedert, Stephen

 
9780595090150: I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President: Henry Clay Wins the Presidency
Softcover
ISBN 10: 059509015X ISBN 13: 9780595090150
Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

A story set before, during, and immediately after the Jacksonian Period and the critical years leading up to the Civil War. Former Speaker of the House, Senator, Secretary of State, organizer of the Whig political party, Henry Clay, had lost the race to the White House three times already, and now was his chance to take the Presidency for himself. Zachary Taylor declines to run as the Chief Executive, giving Clay another shot. With the use of the telegraph and help from newspaper editor Horace Greeley, Daniel Webster, and others, the first presidential debate in 1848 between Clay and Martin Van Buren and Lewis Cass was set. One of the most popular senators of all time, the Kentuckian Henry Clay goes into the debate with fire and vengeance to make up for his previous losses. Whoever comes out the winner of this historical occasion would go on and follow James Polk to the Presidency, and attempt to delay the inevitableAmerican Civil War.

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Publisher
iUniverse
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
059509015X
ISBN 13 
9780595090150
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192