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Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history-- culpable regardless of her intentions.
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English
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, this book is a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy. History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis's own time...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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112 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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After the secession of eleven southern states, Jefferson Davis gave up his U.S. citizenship to accept the presidency of the Confederate States of America and led the South in the Civil War.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"New York Times"-bestselling author of "Manhunt" returns to the Civil War era to tell the epic story of the search for Jefferson Davis and the eventful funeral procession for assassinated president Abraham Lincoln.
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from...
6) Arguing until doomsday: Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the struggle for American democracy
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
"As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture more apparent than in the...
11) Jefferson Davis
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Pub. Date
[1978]
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44 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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A brief biography of the statesman who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Pub. Date
2003.
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1 videodisc (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Series explores the dynamics, people and events that characterized the end of the Civil War era. This volume presents portraits of Civil War leaders Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.
15) Jefferson Davis
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Pub. Date
[1990]
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111 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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A biography of the man who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed...
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[1999]
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xviii, 490 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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In this, the first dual biography of the two leaders, Bruce Chadwick argues that one of several reasons why the North won and the South lost can be found in the drastically different characters of the two presidents. The electric and flexible personality of Lincoln enabled him to build coalitions among warring political factions and become one of the strongest and most successful presidents in U.S. history. The inability of the uncompromising Davis...
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2006.
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403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
Description
In this first academic biography of Jefferson Davis's wife, Varina, Cashin (Ohio State Univ.) presents an engaging look at the Confederacy's first lady, who surprisingly did not believe in the Southern cause. Much of the book, however, focuses on Davis's life after the Civil War, when she struggled to support her penniless husband and later managed her own survival as a widow for over 25 years. Varina Davis drew vast criticism during the postbellum...
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