Background
Baxter, Maurice Glen was born on September 22, 1920 in Augusta, Illinois, United States. Son of Sterling Roscoe and Anna (Walsh) Baxter.
(This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System...)
This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System―a program of vigorous economic nationalism dependent on active government and constitutional aspects of what was perhaps Clay's greatest contribution to national policy, a contribution that has received surprisingly little study until now. During the first half of the nineteenth century the new United States experienced rapid material growth, transforming a largely agrarian, pre-modern economy into a diversified, industrializing one. As Speaker of the House in the years following the War of 1812, and later as founder of the Whig party, Clay argued strongly for the development of a home market for domestic goods so that Americans would not be dependent on foreign imports. This "American System" was originally little more than a protective tariff on foreign goods, but it soon came to encompass a collection of policies that included a national banking system and distribution of federal funds to improve transportation. Baxter reveals the inner workings of Clay's program and offers the first careful analysis of its successes and failures. This lively and incisive account will appeal to anyone interested in American history and the processes that shaped modern America
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( From the ratification of the Constitution to the outbr...)
From the ratification of the Constitution to the outbreak of the Civil War, few persons played a greater role in American history than Daniel Webster. He was a spokesman of New England commercial interests in the War of 1812, approving the threat of state interposition by the Hartford Convention; later an apostle of the industrial system and advocate of protective tariffs; a brilliant expositor of the Constitution as an instrument for national economic growth and strong central government; the architect of a foreign policy that brought permanent peace between the United States and England; the Great Compromiser who, as much as any other public man, tried to reconcile the clashing interests of North and South. Despite his importance Webster has never been the subject of a full-scale, scholarly biography. Maurice C. Baxter's One and Inseparable traces the interrelated evolution of the public career and the private life of this imposing and controversial Yankee. He portrays Webster as an unswerving patriot, an advocate of nationality, and a champion of peace and the Union--but also reveals him as a self-promoting politician who varied his positions to suit the interests of his constituents and was sometimes insensitive to the great moral issues of his day. This devoted family man, enterprising if not altogether successful farmer, and genial companion could he egotistical, immoderate in his drinking habits, and careless about personal finances. Reading Baxter's lucid, moving biography it is possible to understand why Ralph Waldo Emerson so detested Daniel Webster but also called him "the competest man" produced by America, adding: "Nature had not in our days, or not since Napoleon, cut out such a masterpiece."
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(Webster, a staunch nationalist and firm protector of prop...)
Webster, a staunch nationalist and firm protector of property rights, exerted a strong influence on the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Court began its historic function of interpreting the Constitution.
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Baxter, Maurice Glen was born on September 22, 1920 in Augusta, Illinois, United States. Son of Sterling Roscoe and Anna (Walsh) Baxter.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Illinois, 1941; Master of Arts, University Illinois, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1948.
Professor history, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1948-1991; professor emeritus, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1991.
(This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American system...)
(This detailed study of Henry Clay and the American System...)
( From the ratification of the Constitution to the outbr...)
(Webster, a staunch nationalist and firm protector of prop...)
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. Member Organisation American Historians.
Married Cynthia Lewis, January 6, 1951. Children: Kent, Hugh.