William C. Davis, Author . Free Press $35 (408p) ISBN 978-0-684-86585-0
Ironically, the institution for which it went to war became the Confederacy's single greatest source of internal dissension, Davis (Lincoln's Men) shows. While the Confederate constitution rendered slavery untouchable, the Confederate...
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William C. Davis, Author . Harcourt $28 (706p) ISBN 978-0-15-100403-4
Historian Davis contemplates the New Orleans privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite, who loomed large in Gulf Coast waters—and in history—from about the time of the Louisiana Purchase and into the 1820s. Although adding little new research,...
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William C. Davis, Author University Press of Kansas $29.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1088-4
From its beguilingly clever title to its concluding quotation from Wordsworth, this study of a Civil War friendship is captivating. Virginia Tech's Davis, author of more than 40 books about the War Between the States, charts the friendship of two...
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William C. Davis, Author HarperCollins Publishers $35 (688p) ISBN 978-0-06-017334-0
In 1836, Bowie and Travis, who would lead the 200 doomed Texas rebels at the Alamo, met for the first time at the walled adobe buildings that were largely comprised of the church of San Jose y Santiago del Alamo de Parras. A few days later, David...
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William C. Davis, Author Free Press $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-83337-8
Historians have plumbed the depths of Lincoln's religion, his humor, his marriage, his political prowess and his talents as a military tactician. Yet, as Davis (A Government of Their Own) points out, the vital relationship between Lincoln and the...
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William C. Davis, Author HarperCollins Publishers $40 (784p) ISBN 978-0-06-016706-6
This portrait puts the emphasis on Davis's private warmth, public coolness, personal insecurity and indecisiveness during the Civil War. Relying mostly on contemporary sources, the author ( Image of the War ) explores how Davis's attitudes and...
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William C. Davis, Author HarperCollins Publishers $30 (382p) ISBN 978-0-06-016921-3
On April 7, 1798, Congress created the Mississippi Territory, a land that had seen French, British and Spanish rule within four decades. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour) chronicles the development of the Old Southwest (Mississippi and...
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William C. Davis, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-15-100925-1
Davis (The Pirates Laffite) presents a well-documented account of "America's second and smallest rebellion," led by a simple storekeeper named Reuben Kemper. The region of West Florida, settled increasingly by Americans after the Revolution,...
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William C. Davis, Author . Harcourt $30 (512p) ISBN 978-0-15-100564-2
The Pulitzer Prize–nominated Civil War historian turns his pen to the last four months of the Confederacy: how, asks Davis (Three Roads to the Alamo, etc.), did Confederate president Jefferson Davis respond to Union victory? Author Davis...
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William C. Davis, Author . Free Press $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-86510-2
The dream of making the Texan lands of Mexico an independent republic dated from the 1820s. When that vast territory achieved independence in 1836, much blood had been gruesomely spilled and a huge slice of Mexico had been forever lost to that...
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