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America's Great Debate

Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise that Preserved the Union

by Fergus M. Bordewich

Politics and governmentSlaveryCompromise of 1850HistoryCausesNew York Times reviewedCivil War Period (1850-1877)War

The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in U.S. Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union

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