Article: Digging Deeper.(books on Jefferson Davis)(Bibliography)

Books to Read

Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederacy by Joann J. Burch (Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1998), part of the Historical American Biographies series, follows the life of the man who led the Confederate States of America. From his childhood in Mississippi, to his military days and political career in the South, to his exile after the Civil War, this book illustrates how Davis came to be a symbol of the Confederates' lost cause. Grade 4 and up.

Jefferson Davis by Zachary Kent (Chicago: Childrens Press, 1993), part of the Cornerstones of Freedom series, is a short and to-the-point biography of the soldier and statesman ...

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