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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... McPherson is... our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era." -- The... Read Full Overview

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy" History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for... Read Full Overview