During his lifetime, Henry Clay would go from being the seventh child of a working tobacco farmer to one who made things happen internationally. How did he do it? With compromise and ambition, but sometimes by compromising with his ambition This is the story of 'Harry of the West' as he quarreled with presidents, pushed another into a war, and mentored yet another into changing the very dynamics of the nation. Along the way, he created a political party, and made lasting contributions to the law, horse racing as well as Kentucky and Washington, DC politics.