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Book Review

Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxiv, 542 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-7006-1170-3.)
Jefferson Davis has been the subject of several major biographies recently, including those by William C. Davis (1991) and William Cooper Jr. (2000). Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer have chosen to focus their study on Davis's term as president of the Confederacy, not on his entire life. They propose to include information on battles and other aspects of the Confederate context in order to show to what Davis was responding. The authors also plan to analyze Davis in the context of other American presidents, using a model propounded by James David Barber in The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House (1992). . . .
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