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Good. Size: 8x5x1; Good+. Gently used paperback. Foxing to top page block. No spine crease. Only slight wear. Odor free. No owners' names/labels. Text is clean, unmarked. (Shelf: G2) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial Edition
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Good. Ex-library. Front free end paper and pre-title pages have been removed. reverse title has photo of J. Davis, next page is an insert saying this copy was prepared for William King High School and presented by Pauline White Mason; green cloth, library bound wikipedia-The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War. He wrote most of the book at Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Mississippi plantation where he was living as a guest of the novelist and wealthy widow, Sarah Ellis Dorsey. Ill with cancer, in 1878 she made over her will and left the plantation to him before her death in 1879. She had already assisted him in his writing, notably with organization, editing and encouragement. Davis was also assisted by his wife, Varina, and his secretary Major W.T. Walthall. He corresponded voluminously with surviving Confederate statesmen and generals, including Judah Benjamin and Jubal Early, for fact checking and details on key issues. The book was released in 1881 by the New York publisher D. Appleton & Co. in a two volume edition totaling more than 1, 500 pages and with many engraved illustrations. Critical response to the book was initially and continues to be very mixed. Not surprisingly the most lavish praise upon the books release came from southern reviewers, an exception being Oscar Wilde who pronounced it a masterpiece (though he only skimmed many of the military portions). Most historians and literary critics agree that the book could have benefited from editing as Davis spared little detail in describing every aspect of the Confederate constitution and government often in more minutiae than most readers cared for, in addition to which he retold in detail numerous military campaigns for which there were already many and superior sources (many written by generals and other veterans of the campaign); Davis defended the detailed military accounts in the book itself by explaining that unlike most nations the entire history of the Confederate States of America was inseparable from the story of a war. Far more compelling in the views of Davis's contemporaries and to modern scholars were Davis's thoughtfully constructed arguments as to the constitutional and moral justification of the formation of the Confederacy and of the Civil War. Davis made many comparisons between the formation of the Continental Congress and the American Revolution and the formation of the Confederate States and the American Civil War, seeing them as being little different ethically or politically save that the former resulted in victory for the rebels and the latter in defeat. He discussed the history of slavery, his belief in the hypocrisy of northern states with regard to the practice considering that most northern states had once allowed slavery and that all derived major income from trade goods produced by slaves, and the unfairness that he (and most other Southerners) saw in the numerous acts and policies that benefited northern industrialists to the detriment of Southern planters. Davis cited numerous constitutional passages, constitutional scholars, and American political leaders to prove his thesis that secession was justified, even including a speech by Abraham Lincoln who had argued for the illegality of the American war with Mexico and condemned United States military interference with the rights of Mexicans to self-govern. By the time of the book's publication the once wealthy Davis was elderly, in ill health, and nearly penniless due to the destruction of his estates, the abolition of slavery, and the collapse of the southern economy during and after the Civil War and thus hoped the books would help him in rebuilding his fortune and providing for his family, but while exact figures are disputed the book was a financial disappointment during his own lifetime for several reasons. The title was expensive and thus beyond the reach of many Americans, and Davis refused to go on publicity tours that might...
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New. Second part of the two-volume chronicle of the birth, life and death of the Confederacy written by Jefferson Davis. It covers the period from the Missouri Compromise in 1820 to the readmission of the Southern states to the US Congress in the late 1860s. Num Pages: 700 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 690. 1990. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
