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In DIXIE BETRAYED, David Eicher reveals for the first time the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. Drawing on a wide variety of previously unexploited sources, Eicher shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state. He interfered with his generals in the field, micro-managing their campaigns and playing favourites, ignoring the chain of command. He trusted a number of men who were utterly incompetent. Secession didn't end with the breakaway of the Confederacy and Davis' election as president; some states, led by their governors, debated setting themselves up as separate nations, further undermining efforts to conduct a unified war effort. Sure to be one of the most provocative and controversial books about the Civil War to be published in decades, DIXIE BETRAYED blasts away previous theories with the force of a cannonball and the grace of a gentleman.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Dixie Betrayed
• Author: David Eicher
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780316739054
• ISBN: 0316739057
• ID: 04052836
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 608 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 160 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. March 2006

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