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Statesmen of the American Experiment |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Clyde Wilson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 3,572 Words, 22,089 Characters |
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THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE
Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
Merrill D. Peterson
Oxford University Press, 1987
573 pp., $27.95
Americans seem to have survived the bicentennial of the Revolution and most of the bicentennial of the Constitution--though we suffered through rather more self-congratulation and showbiz and rather less deep reflection on these events than was good for us. But if any citizens have been stimulated to serious reading in American history, to an honest effort to understand the meaning of the great experiment in federal republicanism that is America, then they ought to go from the Revolution and the Constitution to the struggle of Hamilton and Jefferson that followed the establishment of the Constitution.
From there they should go on to that great middl...
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...ured and contained and categorized--they are Promethean figures in the national experience who will continue to present new perspectives to each generation. We have in this book the perspective that will go far to meet the needs of the present generation. It is worth remembering, perhaps, in the rush of our present-centered and neo-philiac society, that we stand on foundations laid by giants.
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