Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet

New York: Literary Guild of America, 1939. Hardcover. 452 pages, illustrations, chronology, bibliography, index, discolor inside boards, name of previous owner scribbled out on front flyleaf. DJ worn: small tears, small pieces missing. His main thesis is that the failure of the cause rested on two main issues, -- that the statesmen did not measure up to the military leaders, and that the Confederacy was founded on a principle that made impossible the orderly conduct of public affairs. He takes his men individually; he views them collectively; he sees them as personalities; he sees them as factors in the running of a machine, and hesitates not at all in pointing out their adequacies and inadequacies to the issue before them. Davis himself, Stephens, Toombs, Cobb, Seddon, Benjamin --all more vital to the ultimate history of the Confederacy than many whose names are better known to the average American. A study of civil aspects rather than military. Important for schools, colleges, public libraries and students of American history. Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870–1949), born in New Haven, Connecticut, was an American author. While attending Yale University, Hendrick was editor of both The Yale Courant and The Yale Literary Magazine. Hendrick became editor of the New Haven Morning News. In 1905, Hendrick left newspapers and became a "muckraker" writing for McClure's Magazine. Following his career at McClure's, Hendrick went to work in 1913 at Walter Hines Page's World's Work magazine as an associate editor. In 1919, Hendrick began writing biographies, when he was the ghostwriter of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story for Henry Morgenthau, Sr. In 1921 he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Victory at Sea, which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, and the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for The Training of An American. In 1919 Hendrick published the Age of Big Business by using a series of individual biographies to create an enthusiastic look at the foundation of the corporation in America and the rapid rise of the United States as a world power. After completing the commissioned biography of Andrew Carnegie, Hendrick turned to writing group biographies. Condition: Fair / fair.

Keywords: Civil War, Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs, Howell Cobb, Judah Benjamin, Lord Palmerston, Stephen Mallory, War of the Rebellion, States' Rights, Statesmen, Political Leaders

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