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6 de jun. de 2018 · LC-USZ62-109953. The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with Henry Clay. This resource guide compiles links to digital materials related to Clay such as manuscripts, letters, broadsides, government documents, and images that are available throughout the Library of Congress Web site.
1 de jun. de 2022 · Digital Collections. The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of primary source materials associated with Henry Clay, including government documents, manuscripts, newspaper articles, and printed ephemera. Provided below is a link to the home page for each relevant digital collection along with selected highlights.
4 de may. de 2010 · David and Jeanne Heidler use the phrase "ideologue of the center"to describe Henry Clay in their biography: "Henry Clay, the Essential American". The Heidlers borrow this term from Daniel Walker Howe's study of pre-Civil War America, "What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" (Oxford History of the United States), and they share much of Walker's sympathy with Clay.
23 de may. de 2018 · The best biography of Clay, comprehensive and temperate in interpretation, is Glyndon G. Van Deusen, The Life of Henry Clay (1937). An excellent brief study is Clement Eaton, Henry Clay and the Art of American Politics (1957), which has a useful bibliographical essay.
1 de mar. de 2011 · The standard biographies of Henry Clay have understandably focused on his eventful political life and career, examining his marriage and family in a necessarily more succinct fashion. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler have instead incorporated detailed descriptions of the Clay family, which was often afflicted by tragedy, within the narrative political biography.
Henry Clay was known as "The Great Compromiser." He helped our nation avoid civil war—but only for a time. Clay, a masterful public speaker, once said "I had rather be right than be President ...
In 1842, with the Whig program at a standstill, Clay resigned from the Senate and began to lay the groundwork for his presidential candidacy in 1844. Political cartoon depicting John Tyler, James K. Polk, and Henry Clay in a race for a “$25,000 prize” (the president's salary), a metaphor for the 1844 presidential campaign.
