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Article: Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. By Felicity Allen. Shades of Blue and Gray Series. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 809. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1219-0.)
Only an intrepid biographer would undertake a life of Jefferson Davis--it is so long, full, and controversial. There is his public career--Army officer and hero of the Mexican War, congressman, secretary of war, and senator of the United States, and president of the Confederate States--and then there are the twenty-four years he lived after the Civil War. Moreover, his acquaintances numbered almost every prominent person of his time, and he maintained close relationships ...