A rare Sephardic Jew in the Old South and a favorite of Jefferson
Davis, Judah P. Benjamin has been described as "the brains of the
Confederacy". He held three successive Confederate cabinet posts --
attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state -- and
was Davis's closest confidant in the government. But some have
questioned Benjamin's loyalty to Davis and the extent of his
influence. More than 140 years after Benjamin first appeared on the
Confederate scene, historians still debate his place in the history
of the Lost Cause. Originally published in 1943 and now available
for the first time in paperback, Robert Douthat Meade's Judah P.
Benjamin, Confederate Statesman provides an absorbing account of
the life of this enigmatic Civil War figure.
Meade chronicles Benjamin's birth in the Virgin Islands; his
rise to power as a lawyer and politician in south Louisiana; his
election to the U.S. Senate in the 1850s; his outspoken role in the
secession controversy; his friendship with Davis; his prominent
role in the Confederate government; his daring escape after
Appomattox; and his brilliant second law career in England after
the war. Still the definitive study of Benjamin after nearly sixty
years, Meade's authoritative work is a classic of Civil War
biography.
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