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How Daniel Webster united the states

In the 19th Century, like today, the nation was divided over what it meant to be an American. Joel Richard Paul, professor of constitutional and international law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law joins guest host John McCaa to discuss orator, lawyer and politician Daniel Webster, who argued that binding the states together was the only way to end slavery. His book is “Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism.”