- Hardcover: 120 pages
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; Reprint edition (December 1980)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813114454
- ISBN-13: 978-0813114453
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 281 g
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An Easy Read, Mar 8 2001
By David Graham - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (Hardcover)
Best known as the author of All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren wrote this short (114 pages) book after Confederate President Jefferson Davis had his U.S. citizenship restored in 1979 during the Carter Administration, some nine decades after Davis's death. When this took place, Warren returned home to Todd County, Kentucky for a ceremony honoring Davis's posthumous reinstatement. As it turns out, Jefferson Davis, like Warren, was also a native of Todd County, and this book is Warren's memoir, a reflection on the ironic, sometimes sad life of the only president the Confederacy ever had. This rumination was so engaging I couldn't put it down. I read it in one sitting, captivated by the quality of story-telling and the poignant southern nostalgia it evoked.
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Good outline of the life of a great and troubled man, Jun 27 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (Hardcover)
This is a concise - 114 pages - but no less impressive and comprehensive look at Davis's life than some of the longer biographies out there. Warren, like Allen Tate before him, sees Davis as a great man but deeply flawed. He could quite possibly have won the War Between the States had he not been so rigidly dedicated to the principle of state's rights. He was too much the gentleman to do what was necessary. Lincoln, on the other hand, was a pragmatist, and had no qualms about suspending the constitution to achieve his means; he thought he was saving the Constitution by defying it! A sad tale of greatness thwarted by principle. Warren composed this essay in honor of his fellow Kentuckian, whose U.S. citizenship had been restored that year - 1979 - by an act of Congress. Warren writes with verve, wit, humor, and insight.
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