He was a lovely amalgam of haughty, prickly, humorless, argumentative, cold and thin-skinned. To make matters worse, Davis had few charms or virtues. Davis was a major slaveowning planter in Mississippi, a staunch defender of slavery and the imperial ambitions of slaveholders, a believer in state sovereignty even while benefiting from federal largess, and a bitter foe of Lincoln and all he was presumed to represent. Rather, he is interested in the challenge of transcending his own convictions and understanding Davis as a “product of his time and circumstances.” This could not have been easy. McPherson is not interested in comparing Davis and Lincoln or in building a case against Davis for treason or anything else. So why write an entire book about Jefferson Davis? McPherson also unabashedly, and correctly, insists that slavery was the cause of the war, and he has always been a great partisan of Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause. McPherson has been able to combine the military with the social and political in a way that sets him apart his early scholarship in fact had little to do with military history.
He is, perhaps, our most distinguished scholar of the Civil War era, whose “Battle Cry of Freedom” is the go-to book on the period for academic and general readers alike.
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