Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings (Modern Library)
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ISBN: 0679642528 / Publisher: Modern Library, May 2003
Collects public documents, letters, and speeches of Jefferson Davis to chronicle the story of his life and offer insight into this complex individual.
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This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of Davis's 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.
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