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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Historical - U.s.
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 496
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 authoritativ