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In introducing his magisterial biography of Daniel Webster, Robert Remini laments the creeping historical illiteracy that threatens to engulf Webster and his contemporaries. All the more reason, then, to be grateful to Professor Remini, the nation's leading Jacksonian scholar, for reminding us of a time when eminent historians still wrote for the general educated reader. Remini's research is impeccable, his storytelling on a par with his outsized subject.

And what a story he has to tell. Whoever said that you can't tell a book by its cover has yet to encounter this ...

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