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Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

By Robert Penn , Confederate States of America;Davis , Jefferson;Warren

Book information

Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Year
1980
ISBN
0813114454, 9780813114453
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
142 kB (145758 bytes)
Pages
114\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1808-1889;Confederate States of America -- PresJeffersonPresidents;Statesmen;Statesmen--United States;Unit

Description

In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis — "not a modern man in any sense of the word but a conservative called to manage what was, in one sense, a revolution." Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back is also a meditation by one of our most respected men of letters on the ironies of American history and the paradoxes of the modern South.

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