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Jefferson Davis gets his citizenship back /
In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1980]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis -- ""not a modern man in any sense of the word but a conservative called to manage what was, in one sense, a revolution."" Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back is also a meditation by one of our most respect |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (114 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813146676 0813146674 9780813146683 0813146682 |