Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The foundation of Webster's civil religion
  • A Boston lawyer
  • The lion returns
  • Civic duty in the romantic age
  • Liberty and union
  • Legal and partisan wrangling
  • Abolition confounds the two-party system
  • Secretary Webster
  • War with Mexico
  • National crisis, Capitol gridlock
  • Consummating compromise
  • Twilight time.