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A Pulitzer Prize?winning Author History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. Had it succeeded, his cause would have torn the nation in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many consider him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor. Now McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause?s failure.,
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James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller) , Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the Lincoln Prize.
