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Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
Photograph of Jefferson Davis by W. W. Washburn (1888) The following is a list of scholarly resources related to Jefferson Davis.. Due to the large number of biographies of Davis published by 1992, Emory M. Thomas of the University of Georgia made a parody bumper sticker stating "Honk if you're not writing a biography of Jefferson Davis."
Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart is a 1999 non-fiction book by Felicity Allen, published by the University of Missouri Press, about Jefferson Davis. The author argued that many existing works were overly critical and did not show positive aspects of Davis. [ 1 ]
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified ...
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Hattaway, Herman (1992-12-01). "Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour". Journal of American History.79 (3): 1178–1179.doi:10.2307/2080868. JSTOR 2080868. - The JSTOR page (when logged in) misidentifies the author as "Steven E. Woodworth" but the reviewer is actually Herman Hattaway, as identified on page 1179.
A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi. The book is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession argument.
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