Head of State (3-Jun-1808 — 6-Dec-1889)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Frank H. Alfriend. The Life of Jefferson Davis. Cincinnati, OH: Caxton House. 1868. 645pp.

Felicity Allen. Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. University of Missouri Press. 1999. 809pp.

Michael B. Ballard. A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy. University Press of Mississippi. 1986. 200pp.

A. C. Bancroft. The Life and Death of Jefferson Davis. New York: J. S. Ogilvie. 1889. 256pp.

Cass Canfield. The Iron Will of Jefferson Davis. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. 1978. 146pp.

Bruce Chadwick. The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Birch Lane Press. 1999. 490pp.

Donald E. Collins. The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. Rowman & Littlefield. 2005. 216pp.

William J. Cooper. Jefferson Davis, American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2000. 757pp.

John J. Craven. Prison Life of Jefferson Davis. New York: Carleton. 1866. 377pp.

Elisabeth Cutting. Jefferson Davis: Political Soldier. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1930. 361pp.

Varina Davis. Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America. New York: Belford Company. 1890. (2 vols.) Sentimental memoir by Davis's widow.

William C. Davis. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour. New York: Harper Collins. 1991. 784pp.

Clement Eaton. Jefferson Davis. New York: Free Press. 1977. 334pp.

H. J. Eckenrode. Jefferson Davis: President of the South. New York: Macmillan. 1923. 371pp.

Paul D. Escott. After Secession: Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1978.

Frank Edgar Everett. Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis. University and College Press of Mississippi. 1971. 153pp.

Herman Hattaway; Richard E. Beringer. Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. University Press of Kansas. 2002. 576pp.

Burton J. Hendrick. Statesmen of the Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. 1939. 452pp.

Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes. Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior. Louisiana State University Press. 2002. 544pp.

Robert McElroy. Jefferson Davis: The Unreal and the Real. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1937. (2 vols.) 783pp.

James M. McPherson. Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Press. 2014. 301pp.

Rembert Wallace Patrick. Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1944. 401pp.

Edward A. Pollard. Life of Jefferson Davis: With a Secret History of the Southern Confederacy. Philadelphia, PA: National Publishing Co.. 1869. 536pp.

Ishbel Ross. First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1958. 475pp.

Eron Rowland. Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis. New York: Macmillan. 1931. (2 vols.)

Hudson Strode. Jefferson Davis. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1955, 1959, 1964, 1966. (4 vols.) 460pp. + 556pp. + 556pp. + 580pp. Volume I, Jefferson Davis: American Patriot, 1808-1861; Volume II, Jefferson Davis: Confederate President; Volume III, Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero, 1864-1889: The Last Twenty-five Years; Volume IV, Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 1823-1889.

Allen Tate. Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall. New York: Minton, Balch & Company. 1929. 311pp.

Victor Vifquain. The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. 1998. 195pp.

Robert W. Winston. High Stakes and Hair Trigger: The Life of Jefferson Davis. New York: Henry Holt and Co.. 1930. 306pp.

Steven E. Woodworth. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West. University Press of Kansas. 1990. 380pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Congressional Biography [link]

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.267)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.393)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.257)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.186)

11. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.255)

12. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (p.208)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.176)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.137)

15. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.157)

16. Who's Who in Modern History, 1860-1980 (p.97)

17. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.219)

18. Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1971 (p.80)

19. Legends in Their Own Time (p.62)

20. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.170)

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