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Christopher Phillips. Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. (Missouri Biography Series.) Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 342. $29.95.

Published as a volume in the Missouri Biography Series of the University of Missouri Press, Christopher Phillips's study of Claiborne Fox Jackson sets ambitious goals. Focusing on the life of a relatively obscure state politician, Phillips explores the construction (and reconstruction) of regional identity in the Midwest. In particular, his book charts the process and the events that transformed Missourians from westerners to southerners. 1

Jackson was a central figure in Missouri's Democratic Party and in state politics during the antebellum era. His career peaked, however, just as the Civil War shattered the state's political system. Elected governor in 1860, Jackson served in office for a brief, tumultuous period. He became a lightning rod for Missouri's secessionist movement, was exiled from office and from the state by federal forces in the summer of 1861, and led a rump assembly that drafted the state's secession ordinance in October 1861. By December 1862, Jackson was dead from stomach cancer. . . .

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