Bøger af Allen Tate

""Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall"" is a comprehensive biography of the life and career of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America. Written by Allen Tate, the book offers a detailed narrative of Davis' life, from his childhood in Kentucky to his rise as a prominent politician and military leader in the South. The book explores Davis' complex personality, his views on slavery and states' rights, and his role in the Civil War. Tate provides a nuanced analysis of Davis' leadership during the war, his controversial decisions, and his eventual capture and imprisonment. The book also delves into Davis' post-war life, including his attempts to rebuild his reputation and his involvement in the Lost Cause movement. Overall, ""Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall"" offers a compelling and informative portrait of one of the most controversial figures in American history.This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Additional Contributors Are David C. Mearns And Frances Cheney.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Poet, essayist, and Southern Agrarian, Allen Tate brings to this biographical sketch of the Confederate President not only a tremendous narrative talent, but also a deep understanding of, and sympathy for, the Southern culture that produced Jefferson Davis. But unlike other Southern writers who made Davis a larger-than-life hero of the Lost Cause, Tate pulls no punches in his assessment of the President's weaknesses as well as his strengths, and how they may have crippled the Confederacy from the very beginning.

One of the early-twentieth century Southern intellectuals and artists of the early twentieth century known as the Agrarians, Allen Tate wrote poetry that was rooted strongly in that region's past-in the land, the people, and the traditions of the American South as well as in the forms and concerns of the classic poets. In "Ode to the Confederate Dead"- generally recognized as his greatest poem-he delineates both the horror of the sight of rows of tombstones at a Confederate cemetery and the honor that such sacrifice embodies, resulting in "a masterpiece that could not be transcended" (William Pratt).

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.

In this vivid portrait of one of the South's ablest (and most enigmatic) commanders, Allen Tate portrays the warrior whom Lee would mourn as "his right arm." Southern Classics Series.