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Jefferson Davis: Across Five Aprils

by | Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized

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With the sesquicentennial of the Civil War quietly coming to a conclusion in 2015, a reconsideration of the Confederate presidency of Jefferson Davis and his leadership as commander-in-chief of the Confederacy gives pause, considering the terrible toll the war exacted on the United States. Award-winning biographer and Civil War historian James M. McPherson’s Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief (The Penguin Press, $32.95) is a thoughtful, focused, biography of the controve


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