A Confederacy Of . . . ?("Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America")

National Review | May 6, 2002| | Copyright

Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America, by William C. Davis (Free Press, 496 pp., $35)

In 1862, as England and France weighed the great question of whether to recognize the fledgling Confederacy, William Gladstone -- then Chancellor of the Exchequer -- proclaimed: "Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation." What Gladstone didn't say -- but could have -- was that this was all being done under the direst of circumstances, ...

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