The Confederate Congress
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Pages: 304
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 02/01/2010
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3476-9
List Price: $34.95
Related Subjects
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch
The Confederate Congress
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The unique character of the Congress as a body which spent its entire life under war conditions is clearly understood, and its problems of reflecting public opinion and at the same time working with the Executive are especially well described.
—;Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Now for the first time we have a comprehensive survey of the work of the Congress and its relation to the Davis administration and the war effort. Yearns has carefully examined all of the available sources on this subject and gives us in this volume an excellent analysis of the legislation, debates, personalities, and politics involved in the Congress.
—Journal of Southern History