The union that shaped the Confederacy
Subtitle: Robert Toombs & Alexander H. Stephens
By: William C. Davis.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 -- Friends and associates.; Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885 -- Friends and associates.; United States. Congress -- Biography.; Friendship -- Confederate States of America -- Case studies.; Vice-Presidents -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Statesmen -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Governors -- Georgia -- Biography.; Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.
Genres: Case studies.; Biography.
Other titles: Robert Toombs & Alexander H. Stephens
Description: "One was a robust charmer given to fits of passion, whose physical appeal could captivate women as easily as his words cajoled colleagues. The other was a frail, melancholy man of quiet intellect, whose ailments drove him eventually to alcohol and drug addiction. Born into different social classes, they were as opposite as men could be. Yet these sons of Georgia, Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens, became fast friends and together changed the course of the South.".

"William C. Davis has written a biography of a friendship that captures the Confederacy in microcosm. He tells how Toombs and Stephens dominated the formation of the new nation and served as its vice president and secretary of state. After years of disillusionment, each abandoned participation in southern politics and left to its own fate a Confederacy that would not dance to their tune."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-280) and index.