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Article: The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Historical Association Nov 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. By Donald E. Collins. The American Crisis Series. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2005. Pp. x, 173. $22.95, ISBN 0-7425-4304-8.)
In the waning days of the Civil War, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was perhaps one of the South's most unpopular public figures. By the time death found him in 1889, however, Davis had become the most celebrated living figure of the Confederate era. In this brief monograph, Donald E. Collins focuses on the years leading up to and just beyond Davis's death in order to illustrate how the nation and, in particular, the white South came to embrace a man whom many had ...