Henry Clay and the Struggle for the Union explores the turbulent forty years leading up to the Civil War and is the first documentary ever produced on Henry Clay of Kentucky, the most dominant public figure in the formulation of the compromises in 1820, 1833, and 1850 that narrowly avoided disunion and civil war. The documentary is magnificently illustrated with some of the greatest portraiture and painted scenes of the era, as well as some of the most remarkable photographs of Clay, Daniel Webster and others.