Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War

Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War

From the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy

â€œThe best concise book we have on the subjectâ€¦ McPherson isâ€¦ our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era.â€Â â€”The New York Times Book Review
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History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to mention a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. 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 causeâ€™s failure. Gravely ill throughout much of the Civil War, Davis nevertheless shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacyâ€”the quest for independent nationhoodâ€”with clarity and force. He exercised a tenacious hands-on influence in the shaping of military strategy, and his close relationship with Robert E. Lee was one of the most effective military-civilian partnerships in history.

Lucid and concise, Embattled Rebel presents a fresh perspective on the Civil War as seen from the desk of the Southâ€™s commander in chief.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-10-07
Format Kindle eBook

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