Lodge follows Webster from a New Hampshire frontier childhood through law and politics, the Dartmouth College case, the Plymouth oration and his return to Congress. He gives full weight to the Reply to Hayne, the struggle with Jackson, the rise of the Whigs and the Ashburton Treaty, judging his subject’s greatness and failings with candour.
A crisp, opinionated life of the defining orator of the antebellum Senate, by a future senator. Download the free EPUB.