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And now the contenders. Our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost, but who nevertheless changed political history. Tonight we feature former House Speaker henry clay of kentucky, known as the great compromiser. The program was recorded at clays ashland estate in lexington, kentucky, its about 90 minutes. This is an encore presentation of cspans original 14week series which first aired in 2011. This is a portrait of kentuckys henry clay, known to us in our history books a...

Ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky, and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. And we are in henry clays parlor r parlor right now. Let me introduce you to jim plotter, historian. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . On a couple of accounts, his famous quote, i would rather be right ...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse m...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse m...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse m...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse m...

His own writings. Well hear from Matthew Mason, auth are on of John Quincy Adams and the politics of slavery. This is just over an hour. A remarkable historical figure and central to almost any academic study of the late 19th to mid excuse me, late 18th to mid19th century and based on the diary that John Quincy Adams had to Matthew Mason are here to talk about their book selections from their diary. This book was recently hailed by the Washington Times as a great read and an informative excuse m...

1832 against Andrew Jackson, and 1844, when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on location at ash land. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky. For the next 90 minutes, we will explore the life and legacy of this man. Unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry cla...

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