Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings. Edited by WILLIAM J. COOPER, JR. New York: The Modern Library, 2003. xxxvi, 460 pp. $25.95. IN the shadow of both his adversary Abraham Lincoln and his right-hand man Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis has never loomed particularly large in the historical imagination. Even among serious students of the Civil War era, few take the trouble to get to know Davis firsthand. The Papers of Jefferson Davis project continues to make the scattered manuscript sources more easily accessible-but dense, multivolume collections intimidate all but the most determined ...

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