America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union

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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. Full description

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America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union

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