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Embattled Rebel

Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War

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Embattled Rebel

By: James M. McPherson
Narrated by: Robert Fass
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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.

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 cause’s failure. 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. 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 South’s commander in chief.

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©2014 James M. McPherson (P)2014 Penguin Audio Historical Military Civil War War
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From the other side

What an excellent book. To see the south cave in on itself without harsly a mention of the north. The wsr only dragged on because the south didn't surrender in 1862 at the earliest and 1863 at the latest.

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