Embattled Rebel

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom , a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy.History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery Many Americans in Davis s own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor Not so, argues James M McPherson In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history, but it is too easy to diminish him because of his cause s failure In order to understand the Civil War and its outcome, it is essential to give Davis his due as a military leader and as the president of an aspiring Confederate nation Davis did not make it easy on himself His subordinates and enemies alike considered him difficult, egotistical, and cold He was gravely ill throughout much of the war, often working from home and even from his sickbed Nonetheless, McPherson argues, Davis shaped and articulated the principal policy of the Confederacy with clarity and force the quest for independent nationhood Although he had not been a fire breathing secessionist, once he committed himself to a Confederate nation he never deviated from this goal In a sense, Davis was the last Confederate left standing in 1865 As president of the Confederacy, Davis devoted most of his waking hours to military strategy and operations, along with Commander Robert E Lee, and delegated the economic and diplomatic functions of strategy to his subordinates Davis was present on several battlefields with Lee and even took part in some tactical planning indeed, their close relationship stands as one of the great military civilian partnerships in history Most critical appraisals of Davis emphasize his choices in and management of generals rather than his strategies, but no other chief executive in American history exercised such tenacious hands on influence in the shaping of military strategy And while he was imprisoned for two years after the Confederacy s surrender awaiting a trial for treason that never came, and lived for another twenty four years, he never once recanted the cause for which he had fought and lost McPherson gives us Jefferson Davis as the commander in chief he really was, showing persuasively that while Davis did not win the war for the South, he was scarcely responsible for losing it. 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McPherson For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Wow, that was incredibly adequate If you don t want to be overly impressed with a historical work on the American Civil War, Embattled Rebel is where it s at Who wants deep insights, anyhow I d rather hear a broad recap of the entire war with the occasional tenuous link to Jefferson Davis role as President of the Confederate States of America Sure, James McPherson might ve dug deeper to given the reader ameaningful account of Davis We might ve learnedabout the man s motivations Wow, that was incredibly adequate If you don t want to be overly impressed with a historical work on the American Civil War, Embattled Rebel is ...How do you handle presenting a biography of the President of the Confederacy Very carefully After all, Davis became the leader of treason, the face of a would be nation that desired to retain slavery, and in the end, a failure, for his new nation never came to be.That it never came to be is a fact of history that we should be grateful for, and McPherson makes it clear that he is Yet is there not something to be learned from Davis and his time at the helm of the Rebels It does seem odd that I How do you handle presenting a biography of the P...Most of my knowledge about the US Civil War has come from the winning party, the North I am quite familiar with Lincoln s life during this confrontation, but never really saw things from the other side.This book explores the leadership style of Jefferson Davis, Lincoln s opposing president in the South, at this time of strife It chronicles Davis wartime decisions and the unceasing challenges to his term in office It was interesting, but hardly delved into the inner workings of Davis mind I Most of my knowledge about the US Civil War has come from the winning party, the North I am quite familiar with Lincoln s life during this confrontation, but never really saw things from the other side.This book explores the leadership style of Jefferson Davis, Lincoln s opposing president in the South, at this time of strife It chronicles Davis wartime decisions and the unceasing challenges to his term in office It was interesting, but hardly delved into the inner workings of Davis mind It mo...This book was a very fair account of the charictor of Jefferson Davis.Mcfersen does not succome to the temptation to compare the man with Lincoln but let s his charictor stand on its own The author goes into detail on Davis s charictor, his micro management style of leadership as well as his pleague of illnesses including Cornial ulsers which caused him debilitating headaches, bad stomach troubles as well as a bout with Malairia.I recommend this to any historian who would like a fair and unjud This book was a very fair account of the charictor of Jefferson Davis.Mcfersen does not succome to the temptation to compare the man with Lincoln but let s his charictor stand on its own The author goes into detail on Davis s charictor, his micro management style of leadership as well as his pleague of illnesses including Cornial ulsers which c...James McPherson is an excellent historian and writer I have enjoyed his other books, most notably Battle Cry for Freedom , likely the greatest single one volume history of the Civil War When I saw him on Charlie Rose promoting his new book about Jefferson Davis, someone about whom I knew too little, but wanted to knowsince he served a fascinating role in history as leader of the Confederacy, I immediately purchased this book I wish I still had the receipt so I could return it Don t bu James McPherson is an excellent historian and writer I have enjoyed his other books, most notably Battle Cry for Freedom , likely the greatest single one volume history of the Civil War When I saw him on Charlie Rose promoting his new book about Jefferson Davis, someone about whom I knew too little, but wanted to knowsince he served a fascinating role in history as leader of the Confederacy, I immediately purchased this book I wish I still had the receipt so I could return...Book review Embattled Rebel Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief, by James M McPherson This was my first biography of Jefferson Davis I have studied and taught about the American Civil War for decades, and read biographies and memoirs of and by some of the other principals in this conflict I have avoided biographies and memoirs of Southern generals and politicians that smacked of nos...Civil War scholar and Pulitzer winning Battle Cry of Freedom 1988 author James M McPherson has taken a fresh look at a subject with whom he is eminently familiar the life and times of Confederate President Jefferson Davis With open minds in short supply these days the author takes a big risk in challenging past postulations Many still consider Davis a traitor.McPherson has methodically, without emotions written this short book It is obvious he has conducted an enormous amount of research Civil War scholar and Pulitzer winning Battle Cry of Freedom 1988 author James M McPherson has taken a fresh look at a subject with whom he is eminently familiar the life and times of Confederate President Jefferson Davis With open minds in short supply these days the author takes a big risk in challenging past postulations Many still consider Davis a traitor.McPherson has methodically, without emotions written this short book It is obvious he has conducted an enormous amount of research in prep...This is a popular biography of Jefferson Davis during the war years, and it s an odd little book It s not exhaustive, it smilitary than biography, and it s not a full picture of Davis during these years to my disappointment, because my great great great grandfather 27th Mass Infantry, Company F was his orderly after he was captured If you thought Lincoln had trouble with his generals, I think Davis had it much worse Davis made an interesting leader during the war, given his extensive This is a popular biography of Jefferson Davis during the war years, and it s an odd little book It s not exhaustive, it smilitary than biography, and it s not a full picture of Davis during these years to my disappointment, because my great great great grandfather 27th Mass Infantry, Company F was his orderly after he was captured If you thought Lincoln had trouble with his generals, I think Davis had it much worse Davis made an interesting leader during the war, given his extensive military experience and sickbed command Would things have been better if he d...This book is in many ways a mirror image of McPherson s book on Lincoln as Commander in Chief of the Union Army Tried by War Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief As with the book on Lincoln, McPherson organizes the book around five functions performed or overseen by Davis in his capacity as Commander in Chief the formulation of policy, national strategy, military strategy, operations, and tactics McPherson calls Davis s operational preference an offensive defensive strategy, which the This...This is a short but interesting look at the four year tenure of Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederate States of America What jumps off the page immediately is that Davis is quite unlikeable Let me rephrase that He is petty, vindictive, short tempered, a micro manager, ambitious as lucifer , cold and yeah Not a particularly good guy In fairness to McPherson, he doesn t explicitly make these conclusions and even argues that to a point, Davis was placed in an impossible situat This is a short but interesting look at the four year tenure of Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederate States of America What jumps off the page immediately is that Davis is quite unlikeable Let me rephrase that He is petty, vindictive, short tempered, a micro manager, ambitious as lucifer , cold and yeah Not a particularly good guy In fairness to McPherson, he doesn t explicitly make these conclusions and even argues that to a point,...

• English
• 03 September 2018
James M. McPherson
• Hardcover
• 301 pages
• 1594204977
• James M. McPherson
• Embattled Rebel