The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.

DAVIS, Jefferson.

Verlag: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881

First edition of the memoirs of the Confederate President, which defended the right of the South to secede and is a key text in the "Lost Cause" mythology. Davis "created a non-slavery rationale for the war. Sectional equilibrium and equality among the states were the Southern goals, he contended - in contrast to the North's desire to acquire an empire. The Confederacy, according to Davis, was all about constitutional government, supremacy of law, and the natural rights of man" (Bonekemper, p. 71). Edward H. Bonekemper, The Myth of the Lost Cause, 2022. 2 vols, octavo. With 19 plates including frontispieces, 14 maps of which 13 folding. Original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Confederate seal to front covers in gilt, patterned endpapers. Light rubbing and a few specks of wear, light toning and sporadic light foxing, very minor peripheral staining towards end of second volume: a very good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 191012

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Titel: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate ...
Verlag: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881