Description
Life Of Jefferson Davis, With A Secret History Of The Southern Confederacy by Edward A. Pollard, published in 1869.
Octavo, viii, 536pp. Publisher’s orange pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Includes frontispiece portrait of Davis, with tissue cover and light foxing to both. Sound text block, light soiling to endpapers and title page. (Howes P-454) (Sabin 63872)
A critical look at the life of Jefferson Davis, from the editor of the Richmond Examiner. Pollard treats his subject with hostility, charging him with incompetence, places blame for the failure of the Confederacy on him. Pollard’s most famous work was The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates, published in 1866.
