Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

" In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress. From that nostalgic journey grew this reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis-"not a modern man in any sense of the word but a conservative called to manage what was, in one sense, a revoluti

Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 12/31/1980
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.83h x 4.98w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780813114453

About the Author

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, was one of America's most revered writers, producing fiction, poetry, history, and criticism, much of it focusing on the moral dilemmas of the South. He served as America's first poet laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize three times, for his novel All the King's Men and for his books of poetry Promises: Poems 1954--1956 and Now and Then. He is also the author of Portrait of a Father and The Cave.

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