He exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy, and his close relationship with Robert E. Gravely ill throughout much of the Civil War, Davis nevertheless shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy?the quest for independent nationhood?with clarity and force. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but that it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause?s failure. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to mention a traitor. our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era.?The New York Times Book Review History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Synopsis: From the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy ?The best concise book we have on the subject. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. He is the author of many works and textbooks on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War, Southern Histories, Black, White and Southern, and Promised Land. About the Author: David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The "fiery trial" of war transformed our country-a conflagration captured in vivid detail in America Aflame. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress, and the South was left behind. The victorious North moved ahead, a land of innovation and industry. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as America's greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics. = Synopsis: In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. Extensive yellow highlighting and writing in book. Minimal damages to front, back cover, and spine.
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