Jefferson Davis, President of the South

by H.J. Eckenrode

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371 pages, Hardcover

First published December 22, 2013

Reviews

[Natalie Wolfe · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting and informative account of Jefferson Davis’s role in the Confederacy. A great read that acknowledges both sides.

[Edward]

The South fought for the race which has made the world what it is, for the agricultural organization of life, for political conservatism, for social order. . . . Between two groups of Nordics fighting a mighty fight was this difference-that one fought for the Nordic race, the other against it. . . . The chief result of the Civil War was the ruin it brought on the Nordic race in America. . . . In the more than half century since the great struggle, immigration has swamped [us]. The New England of today . . . contains a thin Nordic upper class and a mass of factory workers of almost wholly non-Nordic stock. . . . [T]he South [too] is changing, and the time must come when it, like the rest of the country, will be largely non-Nordic.
But what has Jefferson Davis to do with all this? Much. The Southern Confederacy was, essentially, a protest against modernity. It was . . . the effort of the Nordic race to save itself. If it had succeeded, there would have been a new chapter in history. . . . Success depended . . . on Jefferson Davis. He failed . . . and with him faded the last hope of the Nordic race.

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