This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System—a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government and constitutional aspects

Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor bot

A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership “Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other pre

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