Reviews for Jefferson Davis

The average rating for Jefferson Davis based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-12 00:00:00 James Wilson Dyckman was a Tory during the American Revolution. He served in the British Quartermaster Department and took part in a scheme that defrauded the British Army of a large sum of money. After the war he went to England where for over twenty years he took part in the effort to resist refunding the money to Parliament.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-07-16 00:00:00 Rahul Gumare Students of Southern culture, pre- and postmodern, might prefer to assemble a year's worth of dulce et utile reading from LSU Press' excellent Southern Literary Studies series, edited by Fred Hobson. His own contribution, BUT NOW I SEE: THE WHITE SOUTHERN RACIAL CONVERSION NARRATIVE, draws some brilliant parallels between the writings of Willie Morris and Lillian Smith, to name two of Hobson's subjects, and those of 17th-century New England Puritans like Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards. Last year saw the publication of two more books in the series: THE LEGACY OF ROBERT PENN WARREN, a collection of variously authored essays edited by David Madden, and SEWANEE WRITERS ON WRITING, edited by Wyatt Prunty. (originally published in the NASHVILLE SCENE)