Title: Jefferson Davis: his rise and fall
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.
People: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)