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Article: Jefferson Davis: Confederate President.(Book Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Jefferson Davis: Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. 542 pp.
Until the second half of the twentieth century, Confederate president Jefferson Davis remained, surprisingly, a somewhat neglected subject among biographers of the South's wartime leadership. This situation began to change in 1971 with the publication of the first volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, which currently comprises 11 volumes covering his life through the end of the Civil War in May 1865. In the past 13 years, three major biographies have appeared, including William C. Davis's Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour ...