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Hardcover, black cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 413 pages. Includes Sources, Notes and Index. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. A fascinating look at the burning questions at th center of American polity in the mid nineteenth century seen through the careers of three larger than life statesmen – states rights and slavery; while Henry Clay of Kentucky represented yet a new movement, first given expression in the 1830’s by newsman John O’Sullivan, Manifest Destiny. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.