Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings Paperback - 2004
by Jefferson Davis; William J. Cooper (Editor)
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A few days since I received the sad intelligence that our Father was no more.
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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 includes thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson Davis.
As William J. Cooper, Jr., writes in his Introduction, "Davis's notability does not come solely from his crucial role in the Civil War. Born on the Kentucky frontier in the first decade of the nineteenth century, he witnessed and participated in the epochal transformation of the United States from a fledgling country to a strong nation spanning the continent. In his earliest years his father moved farther south and west to Mississippi. As a young army officer just out of West Point, he served on the northwestern and southwestern frontiers in an army whose chief mission was to protectsettlers surging westward. Then, in 1846 and 1847, as colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment, he fought in the Mexican War, which resulted in 1848 in the Mexican Cession, a massive addition to the United States of some 500,000 square miles, including California and the modern Southwest. As secretary of war and U.S. senator in the 1850s, he advocated government support for the building of a transcontinental railroad that he believed essential to bind the nation from ocean to ocean."
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings
- Author Jefferson Davis; William J. Cooper (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Modern Library
- Date August 10, 2004
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780812972085 / 0812972082
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.17 x 1.21 in (20.45 x 13.13 x 3.07 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Confederate States of America - History, Confederate States of America - Politics and
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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