![]() ![]() There are those who will argue that the ultimate and proximate causes of the Civil War are not slavery, but economics. The overarching theme of Heirs of the Founders, as in These Truths, is the legacy of slavery. Heirs of the Founders tells the story of the early-to-mid 19th century America through the political lives of Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Henry Clay (1777-1852, and John C. These Truths provides an overview of the years between the Founders and Lincoln. I went from Lepore to Brands because in reading These Truths I realized my darkest US history blindspot lies between the period after the Revolution and before the Civil War. ![]() Brands new book Heirs of the Founders is because I recently finished (and reviewed) These Truths, Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of the US. The connections between what we are reading now and what we have read in the past not obvious. Sometimes the path from one book to another is murky. Tomorrow’s books depend on today’s choices and yesterday’s selections. Nodes in a network.ĭecisions about the next book we read are filtered through books that have come before. Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H. ![]()
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