Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings (Modern Library)

Jefferson Davis

ISBN 10: 0679642528 / ISBN 13: 9780679642527

Editore: Modern Library, 2003

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Riassunto:

This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of Davis's 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.

Informazioni sull?autore: 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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Titolo: Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings (...
Casa editrice: Modern Library
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: As New
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