Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part from the authoritative Papers of Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches published by the Louisiana State University Press, and incl…
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Weitere Autoren: Cooper, William J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-378-7
- EAN: 9781588363787
- Produktnummer: 15725126
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 496 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'149 KB
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Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was the president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce.William J. Cooper, Jr., is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University. His most recent book is Jefferson Davis, American, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography and the Jefferson Davis Award. He lives in Baton Rouge.
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