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Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial
figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde
wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United
States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of
participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a
source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners.
This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his
writings culled in large part from the authoritative "Papers of
Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches
published by the Louisiana State University Press, and includes
thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately
held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly
edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major
speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his
farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as
Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these
selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson
Davis. "From the Hardcover edition.
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