ISBN
9781108415521
Price
$29.99
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Abstract
The tension between strict legalism and practical politics was perfectly illustrated in the treatment of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Cynthia Nicoletti holds both the J.D. and the Ph. D. and the present work demonstrates her facility in both law and political history. She rightly treats the prosecution of Davis as a story rather than a legal treatise, bringing alive the people and the problems on both sides of the case. Davis’s trial was supposed to be the test case of the legality of secession, but he was never actually tried.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.20.2.10
Recommended Citation
Hoffer, Peter Charles
(2018)
"Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 20
:
Iss.
2
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.20.2.10
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol20/iss2/10
