Jefferson Davis: his rise and fall
Subtitle: a biographical narrative
By: by Allen Tate ...
Publisher: Minton, Balch & Company
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
Description: Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause. Allen Tate (1899-1979), a major American poet and a leading New Critic, was the author of many works of criticism and poetry as well as a Civil War novel, The Fathers, and Stonewall Jackson.
Notes: "Bibliographical note": p. 303-306.
Maps on lining-papers.